Site-specificity
Af Sabine Popp
Melody Woodnutt, the director of NES, asked after the event in the BioPol building, where the influences from our stay in Skagaströnd are to be found in the work (apart from direct use of materials and objects at hand – my addition). It made me thoughtful.
And it made me return to the last chapter of Miwon Kwon’s One Place After Another, where the author asks if it still makes sense in a globalized world with nomadic agents to search for a specificity of place (or if this just has become a commodity and nostalgia, although art works on this issue might be a direct reaction fronting this development).
Should work on site rather be a search for something inherently universal (human), as places liken more and more eachother? Or is the interesting here the experience of seeming contradictions (between the local and the global) side by side, in a kind of symbiosis, which convey a sense of absurdity?
