Genealogy of Site Specificity. In One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity

I have been thinking about the difference between space and place, as that has come up in conversation repeatedly over the past week. In response to this nice serendipity, I am posting an article by Miwon Kwon entitled Genealogy of Site Specificity. In One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity.

http://orchid.cs.uiuc.edu/people/adamczyk/pvss/readings.html

Death of the Author

Below is a link to an article by Roland Barthes entitled Death of the Author. This article voices one of my current favorite notions: once something is written or made the author becomes tertiary to the reader and the continuum in which the work exists with other works. Making art is not about being an individual genius, but about participating.

http://aaaarg.org/roland-barthes-the-death-of-the-author