Places and non-places of contemporary art

In what forms and in what places are artistic practices deployed today? No longer confined to the triad studio-gallery-museum, artists are creating alternatives to the institutionalization of art, by investing in spheres considered off limits to the art world: public/private space; psychological/social territories; scientific research; politics; the workplace. This book is an invitation to consider how these non-traditional places for production/diffusion impact on our conceptions of art, the status of the artist/author, and the role of the spectactor. Diverse artistic approaches are considered – infiltration practices, manoeuvres, relational and performative actions, site-specific intervention – all of which foreground relations of coexistence.