Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each question by whether it can be asked of ANY work in the expanded field or only of OBJECT-based sculpture.
Groups: Can be asked of any work · Only of object-based work
- What does it do to the space it is in?
- What does it ask the viewer to do?
- How long does it last?
- How was its surface finished?
- What does it weigh?
- What material is it carved from?
Hints
- One column works for a trench and a set of instructions as well as a bronze.
- Anything about material or surface assumes an object.
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Can be asked of any work: What does it do to the space it is in?, What does it ask the viewer to do?, How long does it last?
Only of object-based work: What material is it carved from?, How was its surface finished?, What does it weigh?
Why
The left column is what replaced medium as a classifier. Those three questions can be asked of a bronze, a trench and a set of instructions alike, which is precisely what a question about material cannot do, and it is why the discipline's vocabulary shifted the way it did.
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