Site-specificity, can be understood in terms of this process, while a ‘site-specific work’ might articulate and define itself through properties, qualities or meanings produced in specific relationships between an ‘object’ or ‘event’ and a position it occupies.
After the ‘substantive’ notion of site, such site-specific work might even assert to Site-Specific Art
a ‘proper’ relationship with its location, claiming an ‘original and fixed position’ associated with what it is.
This formulation echoes the sculptor Richard Serra’s response to the public debate, and legal action, over the removal of his ‘site-specific’ sculpture Tilted Arc of 1981.
Offering a key definition of ‘site-specific’ work, Serra concluded simply and unequivocally that ‘To move the work is to destroy the work.To movethesite-specificworkis to re-place it, to make it something else.(Serra1994:194)