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my research into the discourse of site specific works, this aspect of site specificity
seems to be the least explored. Perhaps though, the frame of meaning is merely
unapparent. At some point, site specific art and performance transforms the sites
themselves. Each circumstance and instance of a site's condition is unique; thus the
site, its space, materials and frames constantly evolve.
An element missing in the discourse of site specific artwork is its feeling: the
humanistic perspective of the site or place. Cultural geographer Yi-Fu Tuan is a pioneer
in the study of the experiential properties of space. Place is "created and maintained
through the fields of care that result from people's emotional attachment."23 Perhaps
this explains why bodies are often used as object material. Photographer Cindy
Sherman, through her work of situation specific photographs successfully invites an
emotional response by inserting herself as a humanistic element in the site. My piece,
161 Glass, encompasses the facets of site specificity, space, site and materials, but
focuses on the frame of historical and socio-environmental meaning, while also
attempting to articulate the expression of human feeling.
23 Phil Hubbard, "Space / Place," Cultural Geography, ed. David Atkinson, (London/New York: l.B.
Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2005), 42. Referencing Yi-Fu Tuan's Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
(Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1977).8
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Rusnak, Christina S. 161 Glass: Site Specific Music in an Artistic Context, thesis, May 2010; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28472/m1/12/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .