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        One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity

        Miwon Kwon

        MIT Press 2004

        ISBN 9780262112659

      2. A critical history of site-specificity since the late 1960s, with a focus on a deconstruction of the rhetorics of progressive politics which accompanied many community-based and public art projects. Uses the concept of ‘site specificity’ as a lens through which to consider ‘location,’ and ‘identity’ in late capitalist conditions. See in particular Chapter 5 ‘The (Un)sitings of Community,’ in which Kwon discussed the work of Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) and Renée Green.

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