Site Specificity and Normativity

"To be "specific" to such a site, in turn is to decode and or re code the institutional conventions so as to their hidden operations.Reveal the ways in which institution mold  arts meaning to modulate its cultural and economic value."- Kwon Miwon

               Many examples can be brought up to prove this quote as factual. For example : dance in museum settings versus dance in theater settings versus dance as activism . All are worth in quality in theory however due to subjectivity and the power of both the artist and audiences having their opinions the cultural and economic value can shift. As a POC artist and dancer I felt like this part resonated with me the most

       

The art will literally go outside its institutional frame (aka a museum or gallery) hence challenging those  normative notions . 

Site specific  art in nature also challenges capitalism. Capitalism encourages for the product to be packaged and transferable,  site specific performance or Art cannot be packaged to change its location, changing its location will therefore destroy the product.

Site specific performance differs because it doesn't start with a "blank slate/Blank canvas" like the white gallery walls, it starts with a "real place" that already has a lot of information inherently tied to it. The artist is forced to deal with and make choices about the environmental components (can  think in composition of the landscape,  terms like  : scale  size and even cultural framework for instance.) Cultural Framework can address the fact that one might want to present  their work in a Gallery. The Cultural Framework would be that it falls into conventions (hierarchy)  and idealist ways. This will overall effect the experience of the audience,  it will feel like a lived bodily experience or someone witnessing a happening.

I'm wondering why was there a shift of site specificity? What and where did this impotence and shift  of focus to the location of art come from?

I'm wondering how did that performance artist get compensated  ( was insurance, liabilty etc) included? How did she feel while performing that piece? Did the museum notice what the piece was exposing?