project by Arpita Akhanda

 stage 1:

To select text according to my practice.

so , i selected:

 Excerpt from

Site Specific Art

Performance,space and documentation

By

Nick Keya

 

"

site’:

substantive

. [. . .] local position [. . .] The place or position

occupied by some specified thing. Frequently implying original

or fixed position.

‘site’:

1. transitive. To locate, to place.

2.intransitive. To be

situated or placed.

To ‘read’ the sign is to have located the signifier, to have recognised its

place within the semiotic system. One can go on from this to argue

that the location, in reading, of an image, object, or event, its

positioning in relation to political, aesthetic, geographical,

institutional, or other discourses, all inform what ‘it’ can be said

to be.Site-specificity, then, 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

a ‘proper’ relationship with its location, claiming an ‘original and

fixed position’ associated with what it

is. This formulation echo esthe sculptor Richard Serra’s response to the public debate, and legal action, over the removal of his ‘site-specific’ sculpture Tilted Arc of1981. Offering a key definition of ‘site-specific’ work, Serraconcluded simply and unequivocally that ‘To move the work is todestroy the work’ (Serra 1994: 194). To move the site-specific work is to re-place it, to make it something else. "

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Stage 2 and 3:

 selection of space in the architectural site and reading performance :

 

 

  I selected the space to enter the architecture for my reading performance. Since my texts talks about how removing a work from the site changes the work in site specific works , I place my body in between the entrance door of the building and read the text the sound produces was changed because the mouth was pushed by the door and echoed in the building inside where as was hardly heard outside.

Stage 4:
using drawing as a method to activate that space with the text and performance.

                                                    this is the layout of the text on the space
 I adopted the process of cutting as drawing, drew my silhouette out of the paper and placed on the position where I performed on the site.

Stage 5:
 Final display where we had to use the method of flex printing to document our performance an text:
 

                                                        viewers interaction with the work