Practice question · True or false
Smithson's non-site was intended as documentation standing in for an inaccessible work.
Hints
- Ask what a non-site actually consists of and what relation it claims.
- It is material and maps in a stated relation to a place, not a substitute for it.
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False
Why
False, and the distinction is his. A non-site is material, maps and photographs standing in a determinate relation to a place, a proposition about the pairing of gallery and site, rather than a stand-in for something you cannot visit. It is a work in its own right, not a record of another one.
Practise Site: Form in Natural and Urban Space
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