Joshua Schwebel is a conceptual artist. He works in response to the context and conditions by which art takes place. The intention of his work is to catalyze situations for uncertainty and contradiction, specifically by dislocating the encounter with art.

Concretely, Schwebel uses interventions and deceptions to pursue these goals. Most often the work dislocates or removes something from its proper or expected place to cast awareness on what is expected (and does not arrive). The work resists fulfilling expectations, and therefore questions the premises and authority from which those expectations emerge. Schwebel's practice can be located within the lineage of dematerialized practices such as conceptual art and Institutional Critique.