Situations Bibliography

An ongoing resource, the situations bibliography is updated on a regular basis and contains sources that relate to our commissions, events and research. To make suggestions contact info@situations.org.uk. 

Art & Ecology

Max Andrews, LAND ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook (London: RSA, 2006)
Matthew Coolidge, Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America with the Center for Land Use Interpretation (New York: Metropolis Books, 2006)
Jeffrey Kastner, Land and Environment Art (London : Phaidon Press, 2005)
Tim Ingold, The Perception of the Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling, and Skill (London & New York : Routledge, 2000)

Event

Alain Badiou, Being and Event (London : Continuum, 2005)
Yve Lomax, Sounding the Event: Escapades in Dialogue and Matters of Art, Nature and Time (London : I.B. Tauris, 2005)
Gilles Deleuze, ‘What is an Event?’, in: Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (London : Athlone Press, 1993)
Project Unite (France: Unite d'Habitation, 1992)

Art Theory

Nancy Condee, Okwui Enwezor and Terry Smith, Antinomies of Art and Culture (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009)
Alex Potts, David Hulks and John Wood, Modern Sculpture Reader (Leeds : Henry Moore Institute , 2007)
Daniela Perez, , in: (Un)dis-pacement in Contemporary Art: Exploring Sites (London and New York: 2007)
Marysia Lewandowska and Neil Cummings, ‘A Shadow of Marx ’, in: Amelia Jones , A companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945 (Oxford : Blackwell Publishing , 2006)
Pamela M. Lee, Chronophobia: On Time in the Art in the 1960s (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 2006)
Ronaldo Munck, The Poets are, as always, in the vanguard (Liverpool: The International, 2006)
Mika Hannula, ‘The Blind Leading the Naked – the Politics of Small Gestures’, in: Ünsal Deniz, Art, City and Politics is an Expanding World (Istanbul: Istanbul Biennial, 2005)
Malcolm Miles and Tim Hall, Interventions: Advances in Art and Urban Futures, Volume 4, (Bristol: Intellect, 2005)
Renée Green, Negotiations in the Contact Zone (Assirio & Alvim, 2003)
Allan Kaprow, Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life (Berkeley & Los Angeles : University of California Press, 2003)
Adrienne samos and Gerardo Mosquera, Ciudad Multiple: Arte Panama (2003)
‘Advances of art and urban Futures’ Daniel Hinchcliffe and Judith Rugg, Recoveries and Reclemations, Volume 2, (Bristol: Intellect, 2003)
Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics (Dijon : Les presses du reel, 2002)
Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (London : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001)
Michael Pearson and Michael Shanks, Theatre/Archaeology (London and New York: Routledge, 2001)
Benjamin Buchloh, ‘Michael Asher and the Conclusion of Modernist Sculpture’, in: Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000)
John Carson and Susanne Stuart, Out of the Bubble: Approaches to Contextual Practice within Fine Art Education (London : London Institute , 2000)
Gavin Wade and Nigel Prince, In the Midst of Things (Bourneville, 1999)
Mika Hannula, Stopping the Process? Contemporary Views on Art and Exhibitions (Helsinki: NIFCA, 1998)
Malcolm Miles, Art, Space and the City (London and New York: Routledge, 1997)
Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1996)
Critical Art Ensemble , ‘Nine Theses Against Monuments ’, in: Nikos Papastergiadis and Pavel Buchler, Random Access 2: Ambient Fears (London : Rivers Oram Press, 1996)
Robert Irwin, ‘Being and Circumstance: Notes Toward a Confidential Art’, in: Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art (Berkeley & Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1996)
James Lingwood, ‘The Limits of Consensus ’, in: Nikos Papastergiadis and Pavel Buchler, Random Access 2: Ambient Fears (London : Rivers Oram Press, 1996)
Nina Felshin, ‘But It Is Art: The Spirit of Art as Activism’, in: Patricia C Phillips, Maintenance Activity: Creating a Climate for Change (Seattle : Bay Press, 1995)
Iain Chambers, Migrancy, Culture, Identity (London : Routledge, 1994)
Simon Dell, On Location: Siting Robert Smithson and his contemporaries (London : Black Dog Publishing, 1993)
Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt, Public Sphere and Experience: Toward an Analysis of Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere (University of Minnesota Press, 1993)
Arlene Raven, Art in the Public interest (New York: Da Capo Press, 1993)
Craig Owens, Earthwards, in Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power and Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992)
Walter Benjamin, ‘The Author as Producer’, in: Brian Wallis, Art after Modernism: Rethinking Representation (New York : The New Museum of Contemporary Art in association with David R. Godine, 1984)
Brian O'Doherty, Inside The White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space (Santa Monica: The Lapis Press, 1976)
‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ Walter Benjamin, Illuminations (London : Fontana, 1973)

Engagement

Arts Council , The Power of Art, Visual Arts: Evidence of Impact, Regeneration, Health, Education and Learning (London: Arts Council, 2006)

Site-specificity

Joshua Decter, ‘Transitory Agencies and Situational Engagements: The Artist as Public Interlocutor?’, in: Osvaldo Sanchez, inSite_05: Situational Public (San Diego: inSite_05, 2006)
Miwon Kwon, ‘In the Place of the Public Sphere’, in: Simon Sheikh, Public Art as Publicity (Berlin: b_books, 2005)
James Lingwood, Seven Walks: Francis Alÿs (London : Artangel, 2005)
Doreen Massey, For Space (London : Sage Publications, 2005)
Miwon Kwon, One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 2002)
Gerrie Van Noord, Off-Limits: 40 Artangel Projects (London: Artangel & Merrel, 2002)
Michael R. Curry, ‘Discursive Displacement and the Seminal Ambiguity of Space and Place’, in: Leah Lievrouw and Sonia Livingstone, The Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences (London : Sage Publications, 2002)
Alex Coles, Site specificity: the ethnographic turn (London: 2000)
Nick Kaye, Site-Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation (London: Routledge, 2000)
Julian Stallabrass, Locus Solus: site, identity, technology in contemporary art (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2000)
Erika Suderburg, Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2000)
Mike Crang and Nigel Thrift, Thinking Space (London : Routledge, 2000)
Nick Kaye, Site Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation (Taylor & Francis, 2000)
Alex Coles, Site-Specificity: The Ethnographic Turn (London : Black Dog Publishing, 1999)
Miwon Kwon, ‘Public Art and Urban Identities ’, in: Cheryl Younger, Public Art Strategies: Public Art and Public Space (New York: New York University, 1998)
Lucy Lippard, The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicultural Society (New York: New Press, 1997)
Costa Xavier and Libero Andreotti, Theory of the Derive and Other Situationist Writings on the City (Barcelona: MACBA, 1997)
Rosalyn Deutsche, Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1996)
Thierry De Duve, ‘Ex situ’, in: Andrew Benjamin, Installation Art: Art & Design, Volume 8, Issue 5/6, (Spring 1993)
Douglas Crimp, On the museum's ruins (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993)
Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1991)

Place

→ For a comprehensive annotated bibliography on ‘Place’ see Tim Cresswell, Place: a Short Introduction (London, Blackwell Publishing: 2004)

Jane Rendell, Art and Architecture: A place Between (London: I.B. Tauris, 2006)
Jeremy Millar and Tacita Dean, Place (London : Thames & Hudson, 2005)
David Blamey, Here, There, Elsewhere: Dialogues on Location and Mobility (London: Open editions, 2002)
David Blamey, Here, There, Elsewhere: Dialogues on Location and Mobility (London : Open editions, 2002)
Tim Cresswell, Mobilizing Place, Placing Mobility: The Politics of Representation in a Globalized World (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2002)
Julie H Reiss, , in: The Spaces of Installation Art (Cambridge: MIT, 2001)
J Butler and S Bennett, Locality, Regeneration and Divers(c)ities (Bristol: Intellect, 2000)
Terra Infirma: Geography's Visual Culture (London: Routledge, 2000)
Lucy Lippard, On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place (New York: The New Press, 1999)
Clifford James, Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century (Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1997)
Marc Augé, Non-Places. An Introduction to Supermodernity (New York: Verso, 1995)
Lucy Lippard, ‘Notes From a Recent Arrival’, in: Bruce W. Ferguson, Reesa Greenberg, Robert Keziere and Vincent J. Varga , Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby (Santa Fe: SITE Santa Fe, 1995)
Edward Casey, Getting Back into Place: Towards a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993)
Doreen Massey, ‘Power-Geometry and a Progressive Sense of Place’, in: John Bird, Mapping the Futures: Local Cultures, Global Change (London : Routledge, 1993)
Mary Jane Jacob, ‘Making History in Charleston’, in: Mary Jane Jacob, Places with a Past (New York: Rizzoli, 1991)

Socially engaged art-practice

Claire Bishop, ‘The Social Turn: Collaborations and its Discontents’, in: Claire Bishop and Tim Griffin, Artforum pp.178–183 (London: Artforum, February 2006)
Mark Beasley, Democracy: Socially Engaged Art Practice (London : Royal College of Art, 2000)

Material city

Clare Cumberlidge and Lucy Musgrave, Design and Landscape for People (London : Thames & Hudson, 2007)
A. Bradley, Dan Hicks, G. Fairclough, J. Miller, John Schofield and Victor Buchli, Change and Creation: Historic Landscape Character, 19502000. (English Heritage, 2004)
Gavin Lucas and Victor Buchli, Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past (London: Routledge, 2001)
Francesco Careri, Walkscapes: Walking as an aesthetic practice (Barcelona: Gustavo Gilli, 2001)

Curating and Commissioning Contemporary Art

Cameron Cartiere and Shelly Willis, The Practice of Public Art (London : Routledge, 2008)
Brigitte Franzen, Carina Plath and Kasper König, Skulptur Projekte Münster 07 (Cologne: Walther Koenig, 2007)
Ruth Peltson, Creative Time: The Book, 33 Years of Public Art in NYC (New York: Princeton Architecture Press, 2007)
Alfredo Cramerotti, ‘Mediating Spaces: Some Considerations of the Spaces of Large-Scale Art Exhibitions’, in: International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, Volume 2.1, (2006)
Isabelle Graw, ‘Beyond Institutional Critique’, in: John C. Welchman, Institutional Critique and After (Zürich: JPR/ Ringier, 2006)
Hou Hanru, ‘Towards a New Locality: Biennials and 'Global Art'’, in: Barbara Vanderlinden and Elena Filipovic, The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005)
Florian Matzner, Public Art: A Reader (Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004)
Marcus Bruderlin, ‘Work on the White Cube’, in: Kunsthalle Zϋrich and Danish Contemporary Art Foundation , Taking Place (Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)
Paul Marincola, Curating Now: Imaginative Practice/ Public Responsibility (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative , 2001)
Barnaby Drabble, Dorothee Richter and Eva Schmidt, Curating Degree Zero, an International Curating Symposium (Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 1999)
Mary Jane Jacob and Michael Brenson, Conversations at the Castle: Changing Audiences and Contemporary Art (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1998)
Daniel Buren, ‘Can Art Get Off Its Pedestal and Rise to Street Level’, in: Florian Matzner, Contemporary Sculpture: Projects in Munster (Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1997)
James Clifford, Routes, Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997)
Anna Harding , Curating : The Contemporary Art Museum and Beyond (London : Academy Group, 1997)
David Harding , Decadent: Public Art, Contentious Term and Contentious Practice (Glasgow: Foulis Press, 1997)
Nina Felshin, But is it Art: The Spirit of Art as Activism (Seattle: Bay Press, 1995)
Tom Finkelpearl, Dialogues in Public Art (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1995)
Suzanne Lacy, Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art (Seattle: Bay Press, 1995)
Bruce W. Ferguson, Reesa Greenberg and Sandy Nairne, ‘Mapping International Exhibitions’, in: Iwona Blazwick, On Taking a Normal Situation and Retranslating it into Overlapping and Multiple Readings ... (Antwerp: MUKHA, 1993)