Site / Non Sight

When discourses of the Land Art movement were being developed during the 1960’s and 70’s the issue of ‘site’ along with what was termed by Robert Smithson as ‘non-site’ created a central focus. On the one hand the site for a work of art was challenged by taking it outside of the institutional setting of museums and galleries as objects under the control of artists. On the other a radically different set of parameters and scales entered the work of art positioned in faraway natural sites. Unbound by human development these we may call ‘found’ sites that on the one hand foregrounded natural processes and their exchange and effect on man-made works bracketing the limits and role of authorial control and on the other brought forth a super scale of nature which would challenge the boundaries of objecthood of the work of art designed in its relation to human body.