'A timely and highly significant contribution to academic and professional fields of contemporary art, Rendell's Site-Writing offers the first substantial exploration of the situatedness of engagement with art. Here Rendell combines exemplary academic argument with immersive critical analysis of contemporary works. It is this distinctive voice which sets Rendell apart from her contemporaries and makes Site-Writing an essential volume for anyone interested in the specificity of viewing and engaging with, producing and writing about art.' - Claire Doherty, Director, Situations, University of the West of England, Bristol; 'Jane Rendell is a nomadic theorist and a theoretical nomad, whose formidable intellect has produced books on the interstitial relationship between space and feminism, place and psyche, city and citizen, architecture and art. Asking, where does biography end and theory begin?A" Rendell's architectonics of criticism performs a praxis that negotiates the personal and the universal. This discloses the critic in all of us, who, in facing the creative work, is confronted with the other (both distant and near), compelling us to reconstruct our own world and therefore the very space we occupy.' - Professor Dorita Hannah, Spatial Design, Massey University College of Creative Arts
List of Images
Acknowledgements
Prologue: Pre-Positions
Configuration 1
Triangular Structures with Variable Thirds
Transitional Space
Undoing Architecture
One + One = Three: Tracey Emin’s You Forgot to Kiss my Soul
Confessional Construction
Configuration 2
Back and Forth
Frontier Creatures
Travelling the Distance/Encountering the Other
To Miss the Desert
You Tell Me
An Embellishment: Purdah
Configuration 3
A Rearrangement
Word-Presentations and Thing-Presentations
The Welsh Dresser
Longing for the Lightness of Spring
Les Mots et Les Choses
Configuration 4: That Which Keeps Coming Back
Déjà Vu
‘Some Things You See Will Remind You of Others’: Déjà Vu in the Work of Cristina Iglesias
La Passante
‘She is walking about in a town which she does not know’
Configuration 5: Decentering/Recentering
The Copernican Revolution
Somewhere Else She is Told
Decentering/Recentering Do-Ho Suh
Everywhere Else
Trafalgar Square: Détournements
Epilogue: Alien Positions
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index