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This paper analyzes the perceptive experience that Grand Rapids Project (1974),
by Robert Morris, generates, in terms of use value. Since the 1980s, the use value has
been criticized. Yet at the same time, community-based arts came to connect its social
context, such as the history and culture of the community. In contrast, Grand Rapids
Project has some use values, such as being a park and a path, and hardly relates to
social or political context in the nature of earthwork. Thus, considering this project
demonstrates that its use value links perceptive experience and the community.
I reveal that Grand Rapids Project has some use values not only as a park and a
path, but also as a land redevelopment for the community to research the project’s
construction process. In addition, by considering Morris’s theory, one can discover that
Grand Rapids project has a mediation between the plane X and the spatial experience
on the ground. Its use value as a park and a path helps generate this, because the public
visits the earthwork for recreation and other activities. Therefore, the project’s use
value connects its perceptive experience to the community.
