Introduction : On installation and site specificity / Erika Suderburg -- The functional site ; or, the transformation of site specificity / James Meyer -- One place after another : notes on site specificity / Miwon Kwon -- "Illiterate monuments" : the ruin as dialect or broken classic / Barbara Maria Stafford -- Fountains and grottos : installation and the neobaroque / Sean Cubitt -- Garden Agon / Susan Stewart -- Written on the West : how the land gained site / Erika Suderburg -- Hidden economies in Los Angeles : an emerging Latino metropolis / Alessandra Moctezuma + Leda Ramos -- Landscape(s) of the mind : psychic space and narrative specificity (notes from a work in progress) / John Coleman -- Ordinary gestures of resistance / Ernest Larsen -- Internal exiles : the interventionist public and performance art of Asco / C. Ondine Chavoya -- Scream IV / Laurence A. Rickels -- Displacements, furnishings, houses, and museums : six motifs and three terms of connoisseurship / Kevin McMahon -- Public art and the spectacle of money : an assisted commentary on art rebate/arte reembolso / John C. Welchman -- Video and film space / Chrissie Iles -- The machine in the museum ; or, the seventh art in search of authorization / Bruce Jenkins -- "No guarantees, they're wolves" : structure, movement, and the dystopic in Diana Thater's China / Colin Gardner -- The space of electronic time : the memory machines of Jim Campbell / Marita Sturken -- The anthropologist's shadow : the closet, the warehouse, the lesbian as artifact / Catherine Lord -- Imaging community : video in the installation work of Pepón Osorio / Tiffany Ana López -- The 1970s "situation" and recent installation : Joseph Santarromana's intersubjective engagements / Amelia Jones