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Symbolic Power (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994).
9 Kester, “Aesthetic Evangelists,” 6. He cites in particular artist Hope Sandrow’s comment on
her relationship to the Artist and Homeless Collaborative, which she founded. For more on
Sandrow, see Andrea Wolper, “Making Art, Reclaiming Lives: The Artist and Homeless
Collaborative,” in Nina Felshin, ed., But Is It Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism (Seattle: Bay
Press, 1995), 251–282.
10 Kester, “Aesthetic Evangelists,” 6.
11 Ibid. Bourdieu describes this process as an “embezzlement.”
12 Renée Green was somewhat confounded by the ways in which she and her work were
described in the biographical statement and project description authored by Sculpture
Chicago, which she saw for the first time during an interview with the author on April 28,
1997.
13 Such reconnaissance trips are standard for artists engaged in these kinds of on-site, temporary-project-oriented,
often community-based practices. See chapter 2, section on “Itinerant
Artists.”
14 According to the tentative travel itinerary found in the Sculpture Chicago files in 1996,
Green’s trip included a visit to the DuSable Museum of African-American Art; Providence-St.
Mel High School, located in an African American neighborhood near Garfield Park that is
troubled by unemployment and high crime rates; and meetings with Jim Grossman, the
author of Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners and the Great Migration, Charles Branham,
professor of history at Northwestern University, and Amina Dickerson, director of education
and public programs at the Chicago Historical Society.
15 Actually, how the relationship ended is ambiguous. Green does not recall being officially disinvited;
Sculpture Chicago may never have felt the need to disinvite her since she had never
been officially invited to participate in the first place (no contracts were signed at the point of
the initial visit). Yet each party seems to have understood the other’s agenda well enough
after Green’s visit to Chicago to refrain from further communication.
16 See this and other relevant comments by Green in the roundtable discussion “On Site
Specificity,” Documents 4–5 (Spring 1994): 11–22.
17 Hal Foster has described the problematic effects of such anticipation and projection as fol-