Practice question · Multiple choice
Miwon Kwon distinguishes between phenomenological and discursive sites. If an artist creates a work tied to labour exploitation rather than Federal Plaza's physical dimensions, how does relocation alter its status?
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- Where does the discursive sense locate the artwork's fundamental context?
- Why does moving a physical sculpture differ from restaging a conceptual debate?
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D. The work retains its integrity because its primary context remains intact
Why
Discursive works are anchored in intellectual or political debates rather than spatial properties. Conflating discursive site-specificity with physical permanence misses how modern practices engage mobile themes across varied institutional settings without losing their defining critique.
Practise Site: Form in Natural and Urban Space
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- Why is the Tilted Arc dispute instructive rather than simply a case of the public failing to appreciate art?
- Which are true of Kwon's three senses of site?
- Sort each demand by whether it belongs to a LANDSCAPE site or an URBAN one.
- A work in a gallery room can be site-specific.
- In what year was Tilted Arc removed from Federal Plaza?
- Complete the account of site.
- Match each concept to what it names.
- Arrange the events of the Tilted Arc dispute in order.
- Smithson's non-site was intended as documentation standing in for an inaccessible work.