Surrealism first began when Andre Breton published a manifesto in 1924. Breton was enthusiastic about Sigmund Freud’s works about the id, ego and superego. Combining the ideas of the unconsciousness and subconscious with Dada (already a movement characterised by absurdity, disillusionment and ‘anti-art’ that began during WWI), there was a fusion between the irrational absurd and dreams.

I think I need to abandon making my work site-specific, because I noticed the disadvantages of site-specific work. The positives of making work to do with the space (and making the work in the same location) meant that it was connected to the place, and like Buren suggested, no essence is lost if the work made in the space is also shown in that space. The disadvantage was that the work is limited to being placed in that one space. I don’t think that’s the right strategy for me to make work set for one space for now, because I want to get my work shown in a number of different places with a limit of resources. It’s also hard to transfer site specific work from the physical place to online, because online isn’t limited to a specific geographical area. I think this is a problem with site specific art in the times when we rely 100% on the internet to see view and see art.