Forthcoming Publication - Situation, Documents of Contemporary Art
Date uploaded: June 4, 2009
This anthology, edited by Claire Doherty, and publiched by Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press, offers key writings on areas of art practice and theory related to situation, including notions of the site specific, the artist as ethnographer or fieldworker, the relation between action and public space, the meaning of place and locality, and the crucial role of the curator in recent situation specific art.
Artists surveyed include: Vito Acconci, Allora & Calzadilla, Francis Alÿs, Carl Andre, Artist Placement Group, Michael Asher, Amy Balkin, Bik Van der Pol, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Adam Chodzko, Tacita Dean, Elmgreen & Dragset, Andrea Fraser, Hamish Fulton, Dan Graham, Renée Green, Group Material, Douglas Huebler, Pierre Huyghe, Robert Irwin, Emily Jacir, Ilya Kabakov, Július Koller, Langlands & Bell, Ligna, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Jonathan Monk, Robert Morris, Gabriel Orozco, Walid Ra'ad, Paul Rooney, Martha Rosler, Richard Serra, Situationist International, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Vivan Sundaram, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner, Rachel Whiteread and Krzysztof Wodiczko.
Published September 2009. Preorders available.
