RHETOR R1A Chapter Notes - Chapter All: Xenophobia, Conceptual Art, Douglas Crimp
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Erika suderburg, space, site, intervention: situating installation art, introduction: In installation art (page 5 of pdf) the object has been rearranged or gathered, synthesized, expanded, and dematerialized. Content could be space, space could be content. Installation is the process in which a work of art in the neutral void of gallery or museum. Installation art = taking account of the perimeters of space and further reconfigures it. Architecture was to assimilate all forms of the visual and performing arts into a single totalizing project that would define the twentieth century. Bauhaus - resolve the split between art and craft, performer and audience, alienation of subject of art and artist"s alienation from tech and commerce. Wunderkammer - composed of collections of items chosen not because of their historical value as antiquities or their monetary worth. Made by fools outside the architectural standard and often useless as shelter and baffling as monument.
