Whereas a “Site” is scattered information, a place you can visit, experience, travel-to, a “Non Site” is a container, an abstract work about contained information. Crucial to the notion of “Non-Sites” was the condition of displacement and the conservation of meaning after the removal to another site.
Instead of putting something on the landscape, I decided it would be interesting to transfer the land indoors, to the Non-site, which is an abstract container. (Kasther and Wallis, 1998: 31)
The dialectic tension between Sites and Non-Sites is established by the photographs, and above all, by the maps exhibited with the containers. They provided the viewer the link between the original sites and their representations, – that is: between outdoors and indoors -, and implied the performance aspect of the passage between the two locations, throwing emphasis on the spatial practices based on time, duration and physical participation.