19.Jun.2010 My MFA Thesis Paper: “building: A Critical Spatial Practice”

building: a critical spatial practice

building was a site-attuned participatory art installation and artists’ collective convened in association
with completion of the DANM MFA program by Kyle McKinley and Nick Lally. In producing an installation space that
replaces traditional, individuated norms of production in the visual arts with a de-centered dialogic
model, building offered McKinley and other artists and scholars a site for sharing their observations,
games, and interactive sculptural works. This paper examines the art-historical, theoretical, political,
and technical frameworks in which building and its constituent projects appeared.