Site-specific art. Performance, place and documentation

Article number 10160187

Site-Specific Art. Performance, Place and Documentation by Nick Kaye is a critical study of art and performance created in direct relation to particular places and environments. The book examines how site-specific practices challenge conventional ideas about the autonomous artwork by making location, architecture, social context and the experience of space integral to the work itself. Kaye explores relationships between performance, installation, conceptual practice and documentation, considering what happens when an artwork cannot easily be separated from the place in which it occurs. Through discussions of important artists and projects, the study investigates interventions in galleries, architectural settings, urban environments and other locations, as well as the problems involved in recording, reproducing and relocating ephemeral or site-dependent works. Combining art history, performance studies and theories of space and place, the book has become a useful academic reference for the study of site-specificity, installation, performance and contemporary art practice.