Senza cornice. Spazi e tempi dell'installazione/Without a frame. Space and time of installation

Not a style, nor another artistic genre to be classified according to fixed parameters, the installation is a cognitive device that interferes with reality, not only avoiding to escape change, but turning it into its distinctive realm, urging reflections and questions concerning the issue of authorship, the significance of site-specificity (and time-specificity) of the work and its (possible?) storage and conservation. Queries and prospects of investigation that the book analyses through the discussion of the varied critical positions that enliven the contemporary international debate also reporting conversations withthe artists – Bianco-Valente, Diego Cibelli, Mariangela Levita, Domenico Antonio Mancini, Perino&Vele, Rosy Rox, Ciro Vitale – who, during a workshop held at the University of Salerno, offered an insight into their personal experiences with installation, promoting a debate that highlighted even unexpected critical and complex aspects of which this essay, thanks to an extensive bibliographical appendix, reflects the richness and potential confirming that installation art is today a favoured space of linguistic experimentation and new relationship with the public.