SculptureCenter to Host a Panel Discussion on RETRACING THE EXPANDED FIELD

This Wednesday, November 19, from 7-9pm, SculptureCenter will host a panel discussion about the new publication Retracing the Expanded Field: Encounters between Art and Architecture (MIT Press, 2014). Moderated by the book's editors Spyros Papapetros and Julian Rose, the discussion will feature contributors Mary Miss, Josiah McElheny, and Sarah Oppenheimer.

Admission is free and open to the public. Drinks will be served. Arrive early for a chance to view Puddle, pothole, portal from 6pm. The panel discussion will take place at 7pm in the NestSeekers International space on the corner of Purves Street and Jackson Avenue. Copies of Retracing the Expanded Field and the Puddle, pothole, portal catalogue will be available for sale. Retracing the Expanded Field revisits the art historian Rosalind Krauss's hugely influential text "Sculpture in the Expanded Field" and maps the ensuing interactions between art and architecture. Expansion, convergence, adjacency, projection, rapport, and intersection are a few of the terms used to redraw the boundaries between art and architecture during the last thirty-five years. If modernists invented the model of an ostensible "synthesis of the arts," their postmodern progeny promoted the semblance of pluralist fusion. In 1979, reacting against contemporary art's transformation of modernist medium-specificity into postmodernist medium multiplicity, Krauss published an essay, "Sculpture in the Expanded Field," that laid out in a precise diagram the structural parameters of sculpture, architecture, and landscape art. Krauss tried to clarify what these art practices were, what they were not, and what they could become if logically combined. The essay soon assumed a canonical status and affected subsequent developments in all three fields.