Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each practice to the position it occupies in the expanded field.
- A welded steel object in a gallery
- A trench cut into desert terrain
- A structure built into a landscape as shelter
- An intervention altering an existing building
- Axiomatic structures
- Sculpture: not-landscape and not-architecture
- Site construction
- Marked sites
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- Each practice sits at a determinate position rather than being an extension of sculpture.
- A cut in terrain marks a site rather than constructing one.
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- A welded steel object in a gallery → Sculpture: not-landscape and not-architecture
- A trench cut into desert terrain → Marked sites
- A structure built into a landscape as shelter → Site construction
- An intervention altering an existing building → Axiomatic structures
Why
Placing the practices at determinate positions is what the scheme is for. It shows that a trench is not a strange kind of sculpture but something occupying a position the old category never contained, which is why the question "is it really sculpture?" was the wrong one to ask.
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