{"title":"Miwon Kwon","description":"\u003cp\u003eMiwon 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 \u003cem\u003eOne Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity\u003c\/em\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"miwon-kwon-felix-gonzalez-torres-becoming-of-a-work-of-art-cornish-college-seattle-2006","title":"MIWON KWON \/ FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES — The Becoming of a Work of Art, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, 2006","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal double-sided lecture announcement card. 12.9 × 17.9 cm. Offset print in colour and black on coated card stock. Issued for the Cornish College of the Arts Visual Arts Lecture Series. Lecture held at Seattle Asian Art Museum, Volunteer Park, 7 March 2006, 7:30 pm. Front image: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, \u003cem\u003e“Untitled” (Blue Mirror)\u003c\/em\u003e, 1990.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued for a lecture by critic and art historian Miwon Kwon addressing the mutable status of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work: its dependence on spectators, owners, institutions, certificates and repeated physical renewal. The lecture title was subsequently used for Kwon’s major essay in the comprehensive 2006 Gonzalez-Torres monograph edited by Julie Ault.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe recto reproduces \u003cem\u003e“Untitled” (Blue Mirror)\u003c\/em\u003e, one of Gonzalez-Torres’s paper-stack works from 1990. The authorised work consists of printed sheets presented as an endlessly renewable supply; the Foundation records the original sheets as 28 × 22 inches, with the stack maintained at an ideal height of 20 inches. This small card is therefore not an individual sheet from the artwork, but an institutional reproduction used to circulate its image.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe distinction is what gives the object its particular interest. An infinitely replenishable work is compressed into a finite announcement. A sculpture intended to enter public circulation becomes the visual support for a lecture examining how an artwork acquires and retains its identity. Kwon’s argument moves through paper stacks, audience participation, ownership and certification, asking where the work resides when its physical components may be removed, replaced or remade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe card operates between scholarship, publicity and reproduction. It does not contain the artwork. It records one of the systems through which the artwork continued: an image, a lecture, a date and a temporary audience. The event has passed; the administrative support remains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: good vintage condition. Light surface rubbing and handling marks, faint age-related soiling to the reverse, and minor edge and corner wear. No significant tears or creasing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornish College of the Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53825320878418,"sku":"GONZALEZTORRES-CORNISH-INV-2006","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Felix_Gonzalez_Torres_200601.jpg?v=1782256165"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/miwon-kwon.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}