Abstract
By examining how some artists have displaced certain human bodies, this chapter questions the status of those bodies and the reasons for which they have become a persona non grata. By inserting themselves, or some other body, into a place in which they are not expected to be, these artists ask us to question the conditions and in which places are made, leading to certain exclusions and inclusions. By investigating three specific pieces by Christian Philipp Muller, Santiago Sierra, and Keri Smith, Blair exposes how these artworks critique the normalization of who is, and who is not, allowed to be in certain spaces. This analysis notes how these artworks are critical political acts because they dispute the status quo of the geopolitics of certain places. In doing so, these artworks rveal how the politics of place are a cultural construct often aimed at benefiting or controlling a specific group. The delineation and designation of these places is a means of ordering and classifying space with the intent of prescribing which bodies are welcome and which ones are not allowed. These artworks seek to reveal this very prescription, urging the viewer to reconsider its validity and limitations.
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