This unit empowers students with a working knowledge of the ways in which the politics of spaces generates art. Since the 1960s to the present day, art forms have developed where the context for practice, installation art, land art, and public art is defined by responses to space, time and place. Concepts of duration, spatial power, transition and transaction underpin relationships between viewer-specific artworks. <br/><br/>What are the social and political conditions that gave rise to these practices, how do they operate, and how are these concerns expressed in contemporary artistic practices? This historical background of land art, public art and installation art presents a conceptual... -- Course Website
