This lecture was an another interesting lecture that being a product designer, I’ve never had to think about and still won’t have to but it’s still an interesting point. Whether Art is site specific.

From this lecture I’d say that actually, it probably is.

I don’t particularly see it as an issue though because it gives the art a point and a stand. Where as if you can move it then it can potentially have less meaning where it actually is situated. Like with Banksy’s work in particular, he speaks directly into situations. His new work in France that targets their treatment of refugees for example, if the piece was in a museum in Britain then it wouldn’t be a political jab anymore, it’d just be a piece of history. With it being on the wall in France, it means the French people are always walking past and reflecting. 

I saw a piece in the Tate Britain, called “flat packed wood”, it was all disjointed wood and cardboard just piled up randomly. This symbolised site specificity for me really because it was bigger than any of the doors so it was constructed in the building for the building, it was meant to be there. If it was outside of the building then it would have looked out of place and would have just looked like a pile of wood.