Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 January 2026
Current theories of site and site-specificity, developed out of dissatisfaction with the practice and theory of minimalism, and tied to an emerging interest in institutional critique. Scholars, critics, and artists have discussed 'site' not simply as a particular geographical location, but as a larger theoretical construct which embraces history, politics, and economics. The artist famously defined the site-specificity of the 12-meter-high steel sculpture with the motto 'to move the work is to destroy the work'. The 'site' becomes a spatio-temporal continuum that occupies not just one place at one moment, but shifts with the character of the work and of the place it occupies: it can be carried into the court-room, newspapers, or some classroom, in which the author restaged the trial with his students. Site here is very much a real corner of Belgrade, but one vulnerable to political fiat.
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