Site-specificity

Site-specificity is an approach to art making in which an artwork is created to exist in and respond to a designated place. In such practices, the artist accounts for the identity or nature of the location in which the artwork will be placed during the development of the artwork. This often involves shaping the artwork so as to question the political and social engagement of more traditional artistic practices, and art as an institution, in the public realm. Site-specific practices first emerged in the late 1960s as a critical response to the “one place after another” approach more commonly found in museum and gallery settings. As T.J. Demos has described, it served “as a way to resist complicity with market forces that would reduce objects to mobile commodities floating through the idealist white cube of the gallery space." [1]

[1] T. J. Demos, Review: Rethinking Site-Specificity, in: Art Journal 62, Heft 2 (Sommer 2003), S. 98.

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