Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each concept to what it names.
- Phenomenological site
- Discursive site
- Non-site
- Spiral Jetty
- A debate or issue the work enters
- Gallery material standing in a stated relation to a place
- A work in a lake, submerged for decades and re-emerged
- Dimensions, light and materials of one particular place
Hints
- Two are senses of site and one is a device for exhibiting remote work.
- The work that spent decades underwater is the last.
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- Phenomenological site → Dimensions, light and materials of one particular place
- Discursive site → A debate or issue the work enters
- Non-site → Gallery material standing in a stated relation to a place
- Spiral Jetty → A work in a lake, submerged for decades and re-emerged
Why
The Jetty is the case that tests all the others at once: a phenomenological site nobody can easily visit, exhibited through non-sites, and now known to most people entirely through photographs of a work that was for years not visible at all.
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