Artwork Types > Installation
Installation
Works dating from the 1960s or later that use their exhibition space as part of their design. Demanding a viewer's active engagement, installations are often created by artists in direct opposition to the notion of permanent artwork, or art as a commodity.
Basics to get you started

Fred Wilson: Beauty & Ugliness

Artist Richard Bell—”My Art is an Act of Protest”

Artist Dale Harding—”Environment is Part of Who You Are”

An interview with Alfredo Jaar

The YBAs: The London-based Young British Artists

The Case for Ai Weiwei

The Artist Project: Shahzia Sikander

Postcommodity arts collective

An interview with Fred Wilson about the conventions of museums and race

Xu Zhen – ‘Artists Change the Way People Think’

Doris Salcedo: Third World Identity

Mona Hatoum – ‘Nothing Is a Finished Project’

An interview with Anselm Kiefer

An interview with Kara Walker

Marcel Duchamp and the Viewer

Naeem Mohaiemen
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