Over the past decade the position of Instattation art has shifted from a relativety marginat practice to achieving mainstream status within contemporary visual.culture. Its hegemonic presence has given rise to new terms which redefine the art form and impact on a range of other disciptines.

Over the past decade Installation art has achieved mainstream status within contemporary visual culture.Its ascendancy has given rise to new critical terms and has stimulated wide-ranging developments not only in art but also club culture,fashion,film and retail design.This volume surveys the innovative ways in which installation has envolved, embracing different and often unexpexted media,and its far-reaching practice worldwide.

Installation has opened art to experimental strategies beyond the traditionally visual,as impressively illustrated here in over 300 reproductions of work by artists ans diverse as Doug Atiken,Vanessa Beecroft,Santiago Sierra and Mariko Mori.Its constant development,its refusal to accept fixed boundaries and its creation of new dynamics between the artist,spectator and the museum have given rise to astonishing and challenging results.

foreword by Jonathan Cray

introduction

escape

author and instituion

exchange and interaction

time and narrative

the body of the audience