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This discussion delves into the concept of space articulated by Michel de Certeau, which considers space as a "practiced place." It highlights the contributions of artists such as Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, and Bill Viola who engage with site specificity, installation art, and the evolving definitions of public space. The analysis connects historical and contemporary movements, including institutional critique and immersive multimedia environments, emphasizing how these artists navigate social, cultural, and conceptual frameworks in their creative practices.
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MEDIA OFF-SCREEN Topic Three: Space
Michel de Certeau (quote in Suderburg p. 19) “Space is a practiced place”
Artists and Movements • Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Peter Campus, Frank Gillette and Ira Schneider, Gary Hill, Bill Viola, Mary Lucier, Steve McQueen, Isaac Julien, IñigoManglano-Ovalle, PipilottiRist, Doug Aitken, Eija-LiisaAhtilla, ShirinNeshat, Kutlug Ataman, Julian Rosefeldt, Diana Thater, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Stan Douglas, Dan Graham, Joan Jonas, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Perry Bard, Marie Sester, David Claerbout, KutluğAtaman
Key Concepts & Genres • Site specificity (changing definitions of the term) • Late 1960s / early 1970s: “a real place” –phenomenological • Robert Smithson’s site and non-site • Institutional critique: site as “cultural framework” – social/institutional • Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc, 1981-89
“Functional site” – discursive • These are overlapping and competing definitions
Robert Smithson, Site and Nonsite A Nonsite (Franklin, New Jersey), 1968 Spiral Jetty, 1970
Krzysztof Wodiczko, The Tijuana Projection,at Centro Cultural de Tijuana, 2001
Media artists as “urbanists” and “translators” who “make visible the invisible” (Willis) • Installation as sculpture, architecture, environment, performance, collection and arrangement of objects, media • Gesamtkunstwerk • Wunderkammern / cabinets de curiosité / Kunstkammern • Expanded cinema / intermedia environments
Installation as the new cinema: immersive and cinematic (Rush)
Man with a Movie Camera: Global Remake (2008 – Present) by Perry Bard http://dziga.perrybard.net/ • Kinopravada and kinoks • Variantology