Site Specific Art. A Foundational Bibliography

Core Texts from Philosophy

• Foucault, Michel. Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977–78. Edited by Michel Senellart. Translated by Graham Burchell. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

• Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Richard Philcox. New York: Grove Press, 2004.

• Tuan, Yi-Fu. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977.

• Rancière, Jacques. The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible. Translated by Gabriel Rockhill. London: Continuum, 2004.

• Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998.

• Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” In Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, edited by Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg, 271–313. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

• Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

• Casey, Edward S. Getting Back into Place: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World. 2nd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.

• Ingold, Tim. “The Temporality of the Landscape.” World Archaeology 25, no. 2 (1993): 152–174.

• Massey, Doreen. For Space. London and Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2005.

• Mitchell, W. J. T., ed. Landscape and Power. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

• Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

• Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1, no. 1 (2012): 1–40.

• Mbembe, Achille. “Necropolitics.” Translated by Libby Meintjes. Public Culture 15, no. 1 (2003): 11–40.

• Harrison, Robert Pogue. Forests: The Shadow of Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

• Demos, T. J. Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016.

• Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.

• Latour, Bruno. Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy. Translated by Catherine Porter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.

• Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.

Core Texts on Site-Specific Art

• Kwon, Miwon. One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.

• Kaye, Nick. Site-Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation. London: Routledge, 2000.

• Suderburg, Erika, ed. Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

• Krauss, Rosalind. “Sculpture in the Expanded Field.” October 8 (Spring 1979): 30–44.

• O’Doherty, Brian. Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space. Expanded ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

• Reiss, Julie H. From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.

• Meyer, James. “The Functional Site; or, The Transformation of Site-Specificity.” In Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art, edited by Erika Suderburg, 23–37. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

• Deutsche, Rosalyn. Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.

• Bishop, Claire. Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship. London: Verso, 2012.

  
  

Performance Art and the Site

• Goldberg, RoseLee. Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. 3rd ed. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2011.

• Schechner, Richard. Environmental Theater. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1973.

• Pearson, Mike. Site-Specific Performance. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

• Birch, Anna, and Joanne Tompkins, eds. Performing Site-Specific Theatre: Politics, Place, Practice.Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

• Wilkie, Fiona. “Mapping the Terrain: A Survey of Site-Specific Performance in Britain.” New Theatre Quarterly 18, no. 2 (2002): 140–160.

• Carlson, Marvin. Places of Performance: The Semiotics of Theatre Architecture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989.

• Schechner, Richard. Performance Theory. New York: Routledge, 1988.

• Phelan, Peggy, and Jill Lane, eds. The Ends of Performance. New York: NYU Press, 1998.

  
  

Land Art and Environmental Engagement

• Sonfist, Alan, ed. Art in the Land: A Critical Anthology of Environmental Art. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1983..

• Beardsley, John. Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape. New York: Abbeville Press, 1984.

• Lippard, Lucy R. Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983.

• Kastner, Jeffrey, and Brian Wallis, eds. Land and Environmental Art. London: Phaidon Press, 1998.

• Tiberghien, Gilles A. Land Art. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1995.

• Boettger, Suzaan. Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

• Weintraub, Linda. To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.

• Lippard, Lucy R. Undermining: A Wild Ride through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West. New York: The New Press, 2014.

  
  

Feminist Interventions in Site-Specific Practices

• Lippard, Lucy R. The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society. New York: The New Press, 1997.

• Lippard, Lucy R. Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983.

• Phelan, Peggy. Unmarked: The Politics of Performance. London: Routledge, 1993.

• Felshin, Nina, ed. But Is It Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism. Seattle: Bay Press, 1995.

• Lacy, Suzanne, ed. Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art. Seattle: Bay Press, 1995.

• Reckitt, Helena, ed. Art and Feminism. London: Phaidon Press, 2001.

• Reilly, Maura, and Linda Nochlin, eds. Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art. New York: Brooklyn Museum/Merrell, 2007.

• Pollock, Griselda, ed. Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts: Feminist Readings. London: Routledge, 1996.

Feminist Philosophical Perspectives

• Massey, Doreen. Space, Place, and Gender. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

• hooks, bell. Belonging: A Culture of Place. New York: Routledge, 2009.

• Rose, Gillian. Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.

• Ahmed, Sara. Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality. London: Routledge, 2000.

• Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.

• Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.

• Federici, Silvia. Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2019.

• Plumwood, Val. Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. London: Routledge, 1993.

• Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

• Braidotti, Rosi. Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory. 2nd ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

• Kaplan, Caren. Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996.

Postcolonial and Decolonial Perspectives

• Papastergiadis, Nikos. Spatial Aesthetics: Art, Place, and the Everyday. London: Rivers Oram Press, 2006.

• Enwezor, Okwui. “The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition.”Research in African Literatures 34, no. 4 (2003): 57–82.

• Taylor, Diana. The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.

• Okeke-Agulu, Chika. Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015.

• Oguibe, Olu, and Okwui Enwezor, eds. Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace. London and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/InIVA, 1999.

• Camnitzer, Luis. Conceptualism in Latin American Art: Didactics of Liberation. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007.

• Demos, T. J. Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016.

• Kester, Grant H. The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.