Not a convincing term for classifying installation art within a context of conservation because its characteristics do not imply a strategy for preserving or re-installing the work. (q)
Terminology Workshop Inside Installations, 2006
In his essay Notes on Sculpture 2 (1966), Robert Morris argues that one more factor determines the quality of our relationship to Minimalist objects: their size. Large works draft us, creating a public mode of interaction, while small works encourage privacy and intimacy.[...] As such, Minimalist objects are inescapably 'in a situation - one that, virtually by definition, includes the beholder.' (q)
Bishop, 2005, p. 53