Arts 321

Handouts / Presentations

• Site Specific Installation - Interventions (based on Rosenthal chapter)

• Contemporary Interventions

• Installation - Environments

Based on chapters of Claire Bishop's Installation Art:  A Critical History:

• Heightened Perception 

• Mimetic Engulfment

• Activated Spectatorship, Part 1

• Activated Spectatorship, Part 2

Resources:  Books & Websites

• One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity, Miwon Kwon 

• Understanding Installation: from Duchamp to Holzer, Mark Rosenthal 

• Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art, Erika Suderburg 

• Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, Suzanne Lacy 

• Installation Art in the New Millennium, the empire of the senses, Nicolas De Oliveria, Nicola Oxley, Michael Petry 

• From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art, Julie H. Reiss  

• Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996, Anne Farrell  

• Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space (expanded edition), Brian O’Dorherty  

• Looking Up: Rachel Whiteread’s Water Tower, Louise Neri  

• In Between, Wilfred Dickhoff, Kasper Konig 

• The Power of Display, Mary Anne Staniszewski  

• Small World, Toby Kamps, Ralph Rugoff 

• Site Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation, Nick Kaye  

• The Practice of Everyday Life, Michel De Certeau  

• Contemporary Sculpture: Projects in Munster 1997, Laus Bubmann, Kasper Konig, and Florian Matzner. 

• Mattressfactory.org

• Chinati.org

Research Links

Installation Art
https://resources.saylor.org/wwwresources/archived/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Installation-art.pdf

Appreciating Art Lecture Series - Installation art as Contemporary Art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=XJXXzNqbAyU&feature=emb_logo

The Art Assignment:  Body in Place - Maria Gaspar
https://www.pbs.org/video/art-assignment-gaspar/

"Bodyspacemotionthings," in Smarthistory, January 30, 2016, accessed June 9, 2020,
https://smarthistory.org/bodyspacemotionthings/

TED Talk:  Sanford Biggers - An artist's unflinching look at racial violence
https://www.ted.com/talks/sanford_biggers_an_artist_s_unflinching_look_at_racial_violence?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

Dr. Doris Maria-Reina Bravo, "Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates," in Smarthistory, August 9, 2015, accessed June 11, 2020, https://smarthistory.org/christo-and-jeanne-claude-the-gates/

TED Talk:  Janet Echelman - Taking imagination seriously
https://www.ted.com/talks/janet_echelman_taking_imagination_seriously?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

Dr. Doris Maria-Reina Bravo, "Doris Salcedo, Shibboleth," in Smarthistory, August 9, 2015, accessed June 9, 2020,
https://smarthistory.org/doris-salcedo-shibboleth/

Mark Rosenthal, “Site Specific Interventions” from Understanding Installation Art: From Duchamp to Holzer, Prestel Publishing, 2003. 

TED Talk:  Sarah Sze - How we experience time and memory through art
https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_sze_how_we_experience_time_and_memory_through_art?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

Architectural Model Making Techniques and Tutorial (a step-by-step model build) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itD5U_WIqao

Dr. Tom Folland, "Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (billboard of an empty bed)," in Smarthistory, August 9, 2015, accessed June 9, 2020, https://smarthistory.org/felix-gonzalez-torres-untitled-billboard-of-an-empty-bed/

Dr. Jennie Klein, "Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party," in Smarthistory, October 12, 2018, accessed June 9, 2020,
https://smarthistory.org/judy-chicago-the-dinner-party/