Collection: Miwon Kwon

Miwon Kwon is a critic and art historian whose writing has been central to the theorisation of site-specificity, public art, and the conditions under which artworks acquire and retain identity. Her 2002 book One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity (MIT Press) remains a foundational text in the field. Her essay “The Becoming of a Work of Art: FGT and a Possibility of Renewal, a Chance to Share, a Fragile Truce” — delivered as a lecture at Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, in 2006, and subsequently published in the comprehensive Felix Gonzalez-Torres monograph edited by Julie Ault — addresses the mutable, participatory, and renewable character of Gonzalez-Torres’s practice with particular precision.

The documents gathered here are printed traces of Kwon’s critical activity: lecture announcements, ephemera, and publications that record the institutional occasions through which her arguments entered circulation. Each object is a minor administrative support for a body of thought that has shaped how site, authorship, and participation are understood in contemporary art discourse.