CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction : on installation and site specificity
Erika suderburg 1
1. The functional site; or, the transmation of site specificity
James Meyer 23
2. One place after another : notes on site specificity
Miwon Kwon 38
3. “ Illiterate monuments ’’ : the ruin as dialect orbroken classis
Barbara maria Stafford 64
4. Fountains and grottos : installation and the neobaroque
Sean cubit 84
5. Garden Agon
Susan Stewart 100
6. Written on the west : how the land gained site
Erika Suderburg 130
7. Hidden economies in los angeles : an emerging latino metropolis
Alessandra moctezuma + Leda Ramos 143
8. Landscape(s) of the mind : Psychic space and narrative specificity
(Notes from a work in progress)
John Coleman 158
9. Ordinary gestures of resistance
Ernest Larswn 171
10. Internal exiles : the interventionist public and performance art of asco
C. Ondine Chavoya 189
11. Scream iv
Laurence A. Rickels 209
12. Displacements, furnishings, houses, and museums : six motifs and three terms of connoisseurship
Kevin McMahon 220
13. Public art and the spectacle of money : an assisted commentary on art rebate\arte reembolso
John C. Welchman 236
14. Vedio and film space
chrissie lles 252
15. The machine in the museum; or, the seventh art in search in authorization
Bruce Jenkins 263
16. “ No guarantees, they’re wolves’’ : structure, movements, and the dystopic in diana thater’s china
Colin Gardner 275
17. The space of electronic time : the memory machines of jim Campbell
Marita sturken 287
18. The anthropogist’s shadow : the closet, the warehouse, the lesbian as artifact
Catherine Lord 297
19. Imaging community : vedio in the installation work of pepon Osorio
Tiffany Ana Lopez 317
20. The 1970s “ Situation ’’ and recent installation : joseph santrarromana’s intersubjective engagements
Amelia Jones 332
Contributors 347
Index 351