{"product_id":"situation-isbn-9780262513050","title":"Situation","description":"\u003cb\u003eKey texts on the notion of “situation” in art and theory that consider site, place, and context, temporary interventions, remedial actions, place-making, and public space.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eSituation—a unique set of conditions produced in both space and time and ranging across material, social, political, and economic relations—has become a key concept in twenty-first-century art. Rooted in artistic practices of the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of situation has evolved and transcended these in the current context of globalization. This anthology 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn North America and Europe, the site-specific is often viewed in terms of resistance to art's commoditization, while elsewhere situation-specific practices have defied institutions of authority. The contributors discuss these recent tendencies in the context of proliferating international biennial exhibitions, curatorial place-bound projects, and strategies by which artists increasingly unsettle the definition and legitimation of situation-based art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtists Surveyed\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eVito Acconci, Allora \u0026amp; Calzadilla, Francis Alÿs, Carl Andre, Artist Placement Group, Michael Asher, Amy Balkin, Ursula Biemann, Bik Van der Pol, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Janet Cardiff, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Adam Chodzko, Collective Actions, Tacita Dean, Elmgreen \u0026amp; Dragset, Andrea Fraser, Hamish Fulton, Dan Graham, Liam Gillick, Renée Green, Group Material, Douglas Huebler, Bethan Huws, Pierre Huyghe, Robert Irwin, Emily Jacir, Ilya Kabakov, Leopold Kessler, Július Koller, Langlands \u0026amp; Bell, Ligna, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Graeme Miller, Jonathan Monk, Robert Morris, Gabriel Orozco, Walid Ra'ad, Raqs Media Collective, Paul Rooney, Martha Rosler, Allen Ruppersberg, Richard Serra, Situationist International, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Vivan Sundaram, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner, Rachel Whiteread, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Qiu Zhijie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWriters\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eArjun Appaduri, Marc Augé, Wim Beeren, Josephine Berry Slater, Daniel Birnbaum, Ava Bromberg, Susan Buck-Morss, Michel de Certeau, Douglas Crimp, Gilles Deleuze, T. J. Demos, Rosalyn Deutsche, Thierry de Duve, Charles Esche, Graeme Evans, Patricia Falguières, Marina Fokidis, Hal Foster, Hou Hanrou, Brian Holmes, Mary Jane Jacob, Vasif Kortun, Miwon Kwon, Lu Jie, Doreen Massey, James Meyer, Ivo Mesquita, Brian O'Doherty, Craig Owens, Irit Rogoff, Peter Weibel\u003c\/p\u003eClaire Doherty is Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art at the University of West England, Bristol, where she established Situations (www.situations.org.uk), a research and international commissioning program. She is Visiting Lecturer in Curating at the Royal College of Art, London, and Curatorial Director of the One Day Sculpture series, New Zealand. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eContemporary Art: From Studio to Situation.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThierry de Duve is Director of Studies, Association de préfiguration de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDouglas Crimp is Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eOn the Museum's Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMelancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by the MIT Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Meyer is Associate Professor of Art History at Emory University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMinimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous and Other Writings 1986-2003\u003c\/i\u003e by Gregg Bordowitz (MIT Press, 2004).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Weibel is Chairman and CEO of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. With Bruno Latour, he coedited \u003ci\u003eICONOCLASH\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMaking Things Public\u003c\/i\u003e as well as other ZKM volumes, including, most recently, \u003ci\u003eSound Art\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGlobal Activism\u003c\/i\u003e (all published by the MIT Press).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichel Foucault (1926–84) is widely considered to be one of the most influential academic voices of the twentieth century and has proven influential across disciplines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHal Foster is Townsend Martin '17 Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University and the author of \u003ci\u003eProsthetic Gods\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press) and other books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiwon Kwon is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII, Vincennes\/Saint Denis. He published 25 books, including five in collaboration with Félix Guattari.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFélix Guattari (1930–1992), post-'68 French psychoanalyst and philosopher, is the author of \u003ci\u003eAnti-Oedipus \u003c\/i\u003e(with Gilles Deleuze), and a number of books published by Semiotext(e), including \u003ci\u003eThe Anti-Oedipus Papers, Chaosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSoft Subversions.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGabriel Orozco is an internationally renowned contemporary artist. He has had solo exhibitions at venues including Musée d'art moderne de la Ville Paris, the Serpentine Gallery in London, and the Guggenheim in New York. Traveling retrospectives have been presented at Kunsthalle Zürich; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Tate Modern, London; and elsewhere. He has participated in the Venice Biennale (1993, 2003, 2005), the Whitney Biennial (1997), and Documenta X (1997) and XI (2002).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShep Steiner, an art historian and critic, teaches at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eC-Magazine, Parachute, Journal of Visual Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriter, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary, Guy Debord (1931–1994) was a founding member of the Lettrist International and Situationist International groups. His films and books, including \u003ci\u003eSociety of the Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e (1967), were major catalysts for philosophical and political changes in the twentieth century, and helped trigger the May 1968 rebellion in France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOskar Negt is Professor of Sociology at the Universität Hannover. Early in his career, he was a student of Theodor Adorno and assistant to Jürgen Habermas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Kluge is an author and filmmaker, known for launching the New German Cinema in the early 1960s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConceptual artist Vito Acconci is known for his work in performance and video art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimon Sheikh, a curator and theorist, is Reader in Art and Programme Director of the MFA in Curating at Goldsmiths, University of London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDan Graham's artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. His writings have appeared in \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArts\u003c\/i\u003e, and numerous other magazines, books, and monographs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMartha Rosler lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has taught and lectured on photography since the mid-1970s. Her work was the subject of a major retrospective, \"Martha Rosler: Positions in the Life World,\" in 2000. She is the author of 14 books and numerous essays.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eT. J. Demos, an award-winning writer, is Professor of Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes widely about contemporary art, global politics, and ecology, and is the author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today \u003c\/i\u003e(Sternberg Press).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Birnbaum is a Swedish art critic, theoretician, and curator. He was the director of the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) in Stockholm from 2010 to 2018, and currently directs the VR company, Acute Art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrea Fraser is an artist and Professor of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles. 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