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ONE PLACE AFTER ANOTHER: SITE-SPECIFIC ART AND LOCATIONAL IDENTITY Miwon Kwon Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002 230 pp$32.95 (hb)
Since the late1960, "site-specific" art has undergone various permutations. While the earlier phases challenged the decontextualized space of the museum, highlighting the experiential and phenomenological nature of the works, more recent developments have attempted to revive the criticality of the practice by calling into question the cooptation of "site-specific" art by market forces and mainstream institutions. In One Place After Another, Miwon Kwon provides us with an overview of these transformations, while working through the ambiguities and contradictions, or the "doubleness," inherent in "site-specificity." She also offers a theory of art and site that is applicable to the larger areas of our social, economic and political life.(para) In order to encourage a complex rather than simple, linear reading of site-specificity, Kwon...