ABSTRACT
Among the arts, sculpture has had a particular connection to site. Artists, curators, and critics have made diverse and ranging contributions, especially since the emergence of modernism, to exploring and expanding the potential of site for sculpture. In this interview, Carol Burns and MASS MoCA curator Denise Markonish discuss how sculptors and curators can expand the potential of site, in working evermore closely with the medium of architecture. Addressing the works of various artists, including William Kentridge, Nick Cave, Sarah Oppenheimer and Mark Dion, Markonish considers the museum as site, drawing a distinction between site-responsive and site-specific contemporary artistic practices. The interview covers a range of topics, from the particularities of MASS MoCA as a site of artistic engagement and construction to the process of working collaboratively with artists to create works for and with a site.
