however เนื่อจากว่า งานศิลปะในสมัยนั้น ถูกติดตั้ง ไว้ใน galleries and museum จึงทำให้ สานถที่ทั้งสอง เป็นตัวที่กำหนดกฎ สำหรับศิลปิน และผู้ชม [1]
In its origins in the minimalist sculpture of the 1960s, however, and while linked to an exposure of the object’s situation, site- specificity presents a challenge to notions of ‘original’ or ‘fixed’ location, problematising the relationship between work and site.
In reproducing in object-form the aesthetic of the supposedly empty ‘White Cube’ gallery-spaces (O’Docherty 1986)
they occupied, the early unitary forms of Robert Morris and minimalist objects of artists such as Frank Stella and Donald Judd seemed intent on throwing the viewer’s attention toward these simple, three- dimensional objects back upon itself.
In his influential account of contemporary art’s critique of the museum, On the Museum’s Ruins (Crimp 1993), the critic Douglas Crimp recounts this ‘attack on the prestige of both artist and artwork’ in favour of the spectator’s ‘self- conscious perception of the minimal object’ (Crimp 1993: 16–17).
Arguing that it was this very ‘condition of reception’ which ‘came to be known as site specificity’, he concludes that minimalism’s radicalism ‘lay not only in the displacement of the artist-subject by the spectator-subject but in securing that displacement through the wedding of the artwork to a particular environment’ (Crimp 1993: 16–17).