"To remove the work is to destroy the work." (Richard Serra)

[joseph berg]

- Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing
commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and
universality...its creators insisted on the inseparability of the work and
its context. In recent years, however, the presumption of unrepeatability
and immobility encapsulated in Richard Serra's famous dictum "to remove the
work is to destroy the work"...

http://www.amazon.com/One-Place-after-Another-Site-Specific/dp/026261202X