THE MIT PRESS

Coleccin: Documentos de arte contemporneo.

Situation
Edited by Claire Doherty. October 2009.

THE LIMITS OF SITE

Jane Rendell

22

Site-Writing, 2005

Robert Morris

25

Blank Form, 1961

Robert Morris

25

Notes on Sculpture, Part II, 1966

Robert Morris

27

The Present Tense of Space, 1978

Brian ODoherty

28

Inside the White Cube, 1976

Michael Asher

30

Galleria Toselli, Milan, 1973

Markus Brderlin

32

Work on the White Cube, 2001

Gordon Matta-Clark

33

Statement, 1976

Daniel Buren

34

Critical Limits, 1973

George Brecht

35

Relocation, 1973

Robert Smithson

35

Statement, 1969

Robert Smithson

36

Dialectic of Site and Nonsite, 1972

Craig Owens

37

Earthwords, 1992

James Meyer

38

The Functional Site, or, The Transformation of Site Specificity, 1995

Francis Als

39

On When Faith Moves Mountains, 2002

Allan Kaprow

40

Untitled Manifesto, 1966

Victor Burgin

41

Situational Aesthetics, 1969

Gordon Matta-Clark and Caroline Goodden

42

Foods Family Fiscal Facts, 1972

Group Material

43

Caution! Alternative Space, 1982

Robert Irwin

43

Being and Circumstance, 1985

Peter Weibel
Context Art: Towards a Social Construction of Art, 1994

46

Michel Foucault

53

Adam Chodzko

55

Paul Rooney

56

Jonathan Monk

61

Other Spaces, 1967

Better Scenery, 2000

Let Me Take You There, 2003

Meeting #61, #62, 2001

FIELDWORK
Tony Smith

64

I View Art as Something Vast, 1966

Hamish Fulton

64

Isle of Arran, 1970

Adam Chodzko

65

Out of Place, 2000

Tacita Dean

66

Tristan de Cunha, 2005

Langlands & Bell

68

Afghan Diary, 2002

Matthew Coolidge

71

The Center for Land Use Interpretation, 2006

Giorgio Agamben

73

The Witness and the Archive, 1999

Walid Raad

73

The Beirut Al-Hadath Archive, 1999

Hal Foster

74

The Artist as Ethnographer, 1996

Rene Green

78

Secret (Project Unit, Firminy), 1992

George E. Marcus

79

The Uses of Complicity in the Changing Mise en Scne of Anthropological

Fieldwork, 1997

Miwon Kwon

85

Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari

88

Gabriel Orozco

91

Robin Bone and Shep Steiner

94

Jon Bywater

95

Artist Placement Group

100

Mark Hutchinson

101

One Place after Another, 1997

On Nomadology, 1980

Interview with Benjamin Buchloh, 1998

We Field Workers, 2007

Interrupting Perpetual Flight, 2006

The Incidental Person/ Approach to Government, 1977

Four Stages of Public Art, 2002

ACTION AND PUBLIC SPACE

Hannah Arendt

108

Guy Debord

110

Situationist International

112

Allan Kaprow

114

Jlius Koller

117

Georg Schllhammer

117

Michel de Certeau

118

Adrian Piper

120

Cildo Meireles

121

Constant Nieuwenhuys

123

Krzysztof Wodiczko

124

Douglas Crimp

128

Rosalyn Deutsche

132

Vito Acconci

135

Simon Sheikh

137

Ligna

142

Seth Price

143

Hari Kunzru

145

Josephine Berry Slater

146

The Public Realm, 1958

Preliminary Problems in Constructing a Situation, 1958

The Theory of Moments and the Construction of Situations, 1960

Happenings in the New York Scene 1961

Anti-Happening (Subjective Objectivity System), 1965

On Jlius Koller, 2003

Spaces and Places, 1980

Concretized Ideas Ive Been Working Around, 1971

Notes on Insertions into Ideological Circuits, 1994

New Babylon, 1974

Strategies of Public Address: Which Media, Which Publics?, 1987

Redefining Site Specificity, 1993

Uneven Development: Public Art in New York City, 1988

Leaving Home: Notes on Insertions into the Public, 2000

In the Place of the Public Sphere? or, The World in Fragments, 2004

Radio Ballet, 2003

Dispersion, 2002

The Thematics of Site-Specific Art on the Net, 2001

PLACE AND LOCALITY

Lawrence Weiner

150

Dan Graham

152

Martha Rosler

152

Lucy R. Lippard

154

HERE THERE & EVERYWHERE, 1989

March 31, 1966, 1966

Immigrating, 1975

Notes from a Recent Arrival, 1995

James Lingwood

157

Doreen Massey

160

Marc Aug

169

Arjun Appadurai

171

Geeta Kapur

174

T.J. Demos

177

Patricia Falguires

180

Daniel Birnbaum

184

Ava Bromberg and Brett Bloom

187

Graeme Evans and Phyllida Shaw

188

Peter Liversidge

189

The Limits of Consensus, 1996

A Global Sense of Place, 1991

From Places to Non-Places, 1995

The Production of Locality, 1996

subTerrain: Artworks in the Cityfold, 2007

Desire in Diaspora: Emily Jacir, 2003

Archipelago, 2007

The Lay of the land, 2005

Hamburg Action: A Field Guide: Park Fiction, 2004

The Contribution of Culture to Regeneration in the UK, 2004

Proposal, 2006

THE CURATORIAL IMPERATIVE

Wim Beeren

192

From Exhibition to Activity, 1971

Tony Foster, Jonathan Harvey, James Lingwood

194

New Works for Different Places, 1990

Mary Jane Jacob

197

Places with a Past, 1991

Andrea Fraser

203

Whats Intangible, Transitory, Mediating, Participatory and Rendered in the Public

Sphere?, 1997

Bik Van der Pol

205

Susan Buck-Morss, Ivo Mesquita, Osvaldo Sanchez, Sally Yard

207

Lu Jie and Qiu Zhijie

208

Charles Esche and Vasif Kortun

210

Hou Hanru

213

Jan Verwoert

216

Changing the System Unexpectedly, 1995

Fugitive Sites, 2000

The Long March Glossary, 2003

The 9th Istanbul Biennial, 2005

Towards a New Locality, 2006

Forget the National: Perform the International in the Key of the Local (and vice
versa), 2007

Participation
Edited by Claire Bishop. November 2006

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS

Umberto Eco

20

Roland Barthes

41

Peter Brger

46

Jean-Luc Nancy

54

douard Glissant

71

Flix Guattari

79

Jacques Rancire

83

The Poetics of the Open Work, 1962

The Death of the Author, 1968

The Negation of the Autonomy of Art by the Avant-garde, 1974

The Inoperative Community, 1986

Poetics of Relation, 1990

Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm, 1992

Problems and Transformations in Critical Art, 2004

ARTISTS WRITINGS
Guy Debord

96

Towards a Situationist International, 1957

Allan Kaprow

102

Notes on the Elimination of the Audience, 1966

Hlio Oiticica

105

Dance in My Experience, 196566

Lygia Clark and Hlio Oiticica

110

Letters 196869

Graciela Carnevale

117

Project for the Experimental Art Series, Rosario, 1968

Joseph Beuys and Dirk Schwarze

120

Report of a Days Proceedings at the Bureau for Direct Democracy, 1972

Joseph Beuys

125

I Am Searching For Field Character, 1973

Collective Actions

127

Ten Appearances, 1986

Adrian Piper

130

Notes on Funk, III, 198385

Group Material

135

On Democracy, 1990

Eda Cufer

138

Transnacionala/A Journey from the East to the West, 1996

Carsten Hller

144

The Baudouin/Boudewijn Experiment: A Deliberate, Non-Fatalistic, Large-Scale

Group Experiment in Deviation, 2000

Jeremy Deller

146

Rirkrit Tiravanija

149

Thomas Hirschhorn

154

The Battle of Orgreave, 2002

No Ghosts in the Wall, 2004

24h Foucault, 2004

CRITICAL AND CURATORIAL POSITIONS

Nicolas Bourriaud

160

Lars Bang Larsen

172

Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Rirkrit Tiravanija

184

Hal Foster

190

Relational Aesthetics, 1998

Social Aesthetics, 1999

What is a Station?, 2003

Chat Rooms, 2004

Chance
Edited by Margaret Iversen. March 2010

PERFORMANCE, PROCESS, POSSIBILITY

Georges Bataille

30

Chance, 1944

George Brecht

34

Chance Imagery, 1957

Ann Temkin

45

Ellsworth Kelly: Colors for a Large Wall (1951), 2008

John Cage

48

Experimental Music, 1958

Allan Kaprow

52

Assemblage, Environments and Happenings, 1966

Allan Kaprow

58

Interview with Susan Hapgood, 1992

La Monte Young

65

Compositions, 1960

George Brecht

66

Motor Vehicle Sundown (Event), 1960

Siegfried Kracauer

67

Theory of Film, 1960

Gilles Deleuze

70

The Dice Throw, 1962

Anna Dezeuze

73

Origins of the Fluxus Score: From Indeterminacy to Do-It-Yourself Artwork, 2002

Branden W. Joseph

85

The Social Turn, 2008

Alexandra Munroe

91

Cage Zen, 2009

Jacquelynn Baas

97

The Sound of the Mind, 2005

Julia Robinson

102

The Sculpture of Indeterminacy: Alison Knowles Beans and Variations, 2004

David Frankel

105

William Anastasi, 2007

William Anastasi

107

Interview with Thomas McEvilley, 2005

Robert Rauschenberg
Interview with Dorothy Seckler, 1965

109

Robert Rauschenberg

111

Jasia Reichardt

114

Robert Morris

116

Guy Brett

118

Cildo Meireles

121

Vito Acconci

25

Stanley Cavell

125

John Miller

128

Marcia Tucker

137

John Baldessari

139

Brian Eno

140

Cerith Wyn Evans

145

Klara Kemp-Welch

147

Interview with Alain Sayag, 1981

On Chance and Mark Boyle, 1966

Notes on Sculpture, Part 4, 1969

The Logic of the Web, 2001

Interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2000

Following Piece, 1969

The World Viewed, 1971

Double or Nothing: On the Work of Douglas Huebler, 2006

John Baldessari: Pursuing the Unpredictable, 1981

Interview with Nancy Drew, 1981

Interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2000

Dreamachine: Interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2002

Jir Kovandas Collisions, 2009

REPETITIONS, RETRACINGS, RELAPSES

Jacques Lacan

152

crits, 1966

Jacques Lacan

152

The Unconscious and Repetition, 1973

Brad Spence

154

The Case of Bas Jan Ader, 1999

Gerhard Richter

158

Statement, 1985

Gerhard Richter

159

Interview with Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, 1986

Benjamin H.D. Buchloh

161

The Diagram and the Colour Chip: Gerhard Richters 4900 Colours, 2008

Sophie Calle

164

Suite vnitienne, 1980

Luc Sante

165

Sophie Calles Uncertainty Principle, 1993

Fischli & Weiss

167

Interview with Jrg Heiser, 2006

Claire Bishop
Fischli & Weiss: Equilibres Quiet Afternoon (198485), 2008

172

Russell Ferguson

175

Fei Dawei

177

Paul Auster

184

Gabriel Prez Barreiro

85

The Variety of Din, 2003

Two-Minute Cycle: Huang Yong Pings Chinese Period, 2005

Statement, 1992

Jorge Macchi: The Anatomy of Melancholy, 2008

Nature
Edited by Jeffrey Kastner. March 2012

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The Sublime
Edited by Simon Morley. March 2010

THE UNPRESENTABLE
Henri Michaux

24

Barnett Newman

25

Jean-Franois Lyotard

27

Jacques Derrida

41

Jean-Luc Nancy

47

Philip Shaw

52

Slavoj Zizek

56

Barbara Claire Freeman

64

Jacques Rancire

67

To Draw the Flow of Time, 1957

The Sublime is Now, 1948

The Sublime and the Avant-Garde, 1988

Parergon, 1978

The Sublime Offering, 1988

Lacan: Sublimity and Sublimation, 2007

The Sublime Object of Ideology, 2009

The Feminine Sublime, 1995

The Aesthetic Revolution and Its Outcomes, 2007

TRANSCENDENCE
Yves Klein

72

Truth Becomes Reality, 1961

Doreet LeVitte Harten

73

Creating Heaven, 1999

Luce Irigaray

77

Belief Itself, 2002

David Morgan

82

Secret Wisdom and Self-Effacement: The Spiritual in the Modern Age, 1996

Jean Fisher

86

The Echoes of Enchantment, 1996

Anish Kapoor
Interview with Marjorie Allthorpe- Guyton, 1990

91

Shirazeh Houshiary

93

Bill Viola

95

Lynn M. Herbert

96

Lee Joon

102

Interview with Stella Santacatterina, 1994

The Crossing, 1996

Spirit and Light and the Immensity Within, 1998

Void: Mapping the Invisible in Korean Art, 2007

NATURE
Richard Long

106

HEAVEN AND EARTH, 2001

Robert Rosenblum

108

The Abstract Sublime, 1961

Gerhard Richter

113

Statement, 1973

Robert Smithson

113

Frederick Law Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape, 1973

Walter De Maria

118

Some Facts, Notes, Data, Information, Statistics and Statements, 1980

Tacita Dean

122

Bas Jan Ader, 1997

Olafur Eliasson

123

The Weather Forecast and Now, 2001

John Berger

125

Into the Woods: On Jitka Hanzlovas Forest, 2006

TECHNOLOGY
Jean-Franois Lyotard

130

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

136

Fredric Jameson

141

Roy Ascott

146

Presenting the Unpresentable: The Sublime, 1982

Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime, 1999

Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, 1991

Is There Love in the Telematic Embrace?, 1990

TERROR
Gustav Metzger

150

Manifesto: Auto-Destructive Art, 1960

Vijay Mishra

151

The Gothic Sublime, 1994

Thomas Weiskel

157

The Logic of Terror, 1979

Julia Kristeva

159

Approaching Abjection, 1980

Thomas McEvilley

168

Turned Upside Down and Torn Apart, 2001

Gene Ray

174

Joseph Beuys and the After-Auschwitz Sublime, 2001

Marco Belpoliti

178

Memory of Oblivion, 2006

Lawrence Rinder

182

Tuymans Terror, 1997

Doris Salcedo

188

Interview with Charles Merewether, 1998

Okwui Enwezor

193

The American Sublime and the Racial Self, 2006

THE UNCANNY
Gilles Ivain

200

Mike Kelley

201

Hiroshi Sugimoto

205

A Found Page, 2004

208

Formula for a New Urbanism, 1958

In Conversation with Thomas McEvilley, 1992

Noh Such Thing as Time, 2002

ALTERED STATES
Marina Abramovic

212

Stelarc

213

George Quasha and Charles Stein

214

Marina Warner

217

Fred Tomaselli

220

Statements, 1992

Beyond the Body, 1988

HanD HearD/ Liminal Objects, 2000

Ourself behind Ourself, Concealed : Ethereal Whispers from the Dark Side,
2000

Interview with Siri Hustvedt, 2007

Eleanor Heartney

222

Zhang Huan: Becoming the Body, 2008

Ruins
Brian Dillon. September 2011

MODERNITY IN RUINS
Denis Diderot

22

Georg Simmel

23

Adrian Stokes

24

Rose Macaulay

27

Walter Benjamin

28

Georges Bataille

31

The Salon of 1767, 1767

The Ruin, 1911

The Pleasures of Limestone, 1934

A Note on New Ruins, 1953

The Arcades Project, 192740

Dust, 1929

Celeste Olalquiaga

32

Dust, 1998

Susan Stewart

36

Separation and Restoration, 1996

Walter Benjamin

41

Theses on the Philosophy of History, 1940

Jacques Derrida

42

Memoirs of the Blind, 1990

Le Corbusier

44

Towards a New Architecture, 1923

Robert Smithson

46

A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey 1967

Andreas Huyssen

52

Authentic Ruins, 2006

Anthony Vidler

55

Architecture Dismembered, 1992

Jean Baudrillard

67

The Anorexic Ruins, 1989

Svetlana Boym

68

Obscene Homes, 2001

Geoff Dyer

75

Leptis Magna, 2004

Giuliana Bruno

76

Modernist Ruins, Filmic Archaeologies, 2003

Barbara Clausen

81

Dorit Margreiter, 2008

Mark Lewis

85

Is Modernity Our Antiquity?, 2006

Martin Herbert

89

Sifting Defunct Modernity in Search of Something Useful, 2009

Gilda Williams

94

It Was What It Was: Modern Ruins, 2010

THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL SUBLIME

J.G. Ballard

102

Paul Virilio

105

James Lingwood

109

Tacita Dean

119

Darian Leader

121

A Handful of Dust, 2006

Bunker Archaeology, 1975

The Weight of Time, 2002

Sound Mirrors, 1999

The Architecture of Life, 2006

Caoimhn Mac Giola Lith

123

Jrg Heiser

129

Mark Beasley

136

The Light Gleams an Instant, 2008

Susan Hiller: The J. Street Project, 2005

Walid Raad/The Atlas Group, 2006

DROSSCAPE
Robert Smithson

140

The Crystal Land, 1966

Italo Calvino

141

Invisible Cities, 1972

Eric Schwab and Walead Beshty

141

A Victim and a Viewer: Some Thoughts on Anticipated Ruins, 2005

Patrick Keiller

145

Imaging, 2010

Rebecca Solnit

150

The Ruins of Memory, 2007

Ralph Rugoff

152

Circling the Centre, 2006

Iain Sinclair

156

Lights Out for the Territory, 1997

Richard Grayson

158

Mike Nelson: 24A Orwell Street, 2006

Jeremy Millar

163

Hinterland, 2002

Jonathan Crary

169

Vera Lutter: Spectres of Negation, 2004

Magali Arriola

173

A Victim and a Viewer: Some Thoughts on Anticipated Ruins, 2005

Tom McDonough

181

The Archivist of Urban Waste: Zoe Leonard, Photographer as Rag-Picker, 2010

THE FUTURE NOW

Tacita Dean

188

Martin Herbert

189

Lytle Shaw

192

J.J. Charlesworth

203

Brian Dillon

209

Brian Dillon

213

Fernsehturm, 2001

The Dead Town, 2005

The Utopian Past, 2007

Signs of Life, 2008

An Archaeology of the Air, 2009

Modernologies, 2010

Nina Power

218

Waiting for the Future, 2010

The Artist's Joke

Edited by Jennifer Higgie. October 2007.

PLAYFUL JUDGEMENTS
Henri Bergson

22

Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, 1900

Sigmund Freud

25

Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, 1905

Hugo Ball

31

Dada Fragments, 191617

Hannah Hch

33

The Painter, c. 1920

Francis Picabia

36

Five-Minute Intermission, 1920

Funny-Guy

37

391, 1921

Pablo Picasso

38

Poem, 1935

Leonora Carrington

39

The Debutante, 1939

Andr Breton

42

Lightning Rod, 1940

Marcel Duchamp
Selected Texts, Anthology of Black Humour, 1940

POP GOES THE WEASEL

Kristine Stiles

52

Claes Oldenburg

59

Ad Reinhardt

60

Fluxus Performance and Humour, 1995

I Am for an Art, 1961

To Be Part of Things, n.d. (195366)

1 Robert Smithson

From Ivan the Terrible to Roger Corman, or Paradoxes of Conduct in Mannerism

as Reflected in the Cinema, 1967

Arnulf Rainer

67

Face Farces, 1971

Andy Warhol

68

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), 1975

Peter Schjeldahl

71

Ed Ruscha: Traffic and Laughter, 1985

Sheena Wagstaff

78

Comic Iconoclasm, 1987

Bruce Nauman
Breaking the Silence: Interview with Joan Simon, 1987

81

Jrg Heiser

85

Curb Your Romanticism: Bas Jan Aders Slapstick, 2006

PUNCHLINES
Carolee Schneemann

Interior Scroll: 2, from Kitchs Last Meal, 1975

Hlne Cixous

The Laugh of the Medusa, 1975

Guerrilla Girls

100

The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist, 1988

Richard Prince

101

Tell Me Everything: Interview with Stuart Morgan, 1989

Mike Kelley

104

Foul Perfection: Notes on Caricature, 1989

Barbara Kruger

108

Not Funny, 1990

Marlene Dumas

109

The Blonde, the Brunette and the black Woman, 1994

Jo Anna Isaak

110

The Revolutionary Power of Womens Laughter, 1996

Dave Hickey

116

Frivolity and Unction, 1996

Dan Cameron

124

The Mirror Stage: On Paul McCarthy, 2000

Gregory Williams

129

Jokes Interrupted: Martin Kippenbergers Receding Punchline, 2006

Peter Fischli and David Weiss

135

The Odd Couple: Interview with Jrg Heiser, 2006

INFINITE JESTS
Sarah Lucas

142

Anna Tilroe

144

Michael Bracewell

149

Hamza Walker

152

David Sedaris

156

A Nods as Good as a Wink: Interview with Carl Freedman, 1994

The Laugh of No. 13: On Leigh Bowery, 1994

Jesus Doesnt Want Me for a Sunbeam: On David Shrigley, 1995

Kara Walker, 2000

The First Six Moments from Twelve Moments in the Life of the Artist, 2000

Andrea Fraser

Official Welcome, 2001