Floor Plan: Gambling is a Mathematical Situation
[legend]
1mn (meaning) = 10d (decisions)
1d (decision) = 10m (moments)
1m (moment) = 10in (indecisions)
[floor plan]
– Thinking Room, 5000 in wide x 5000 in high;
– No Room, 10000 in x 50 d high
– Sleeping Room, 5 mn wide x
– Almost Room, 100 d wide x 50 d high
– Passage Way, 900 m wide, 7 mn high
Specifications
Medium: Marked Cards is made of marked cards, acrylic on wood – photographed as an artists’ page in Otis Rush (Adelaide) #6/7, pp. 40-7.
| 01/05/1991 | Otis Rush : new writing, new art & reviews, Experimental Art Foundation (ed. Ken Bolton), Adelaide |
Bibliography
Murray Kevin,
‘Medium: Marked Cards’,
in Ken Bolton (ed.),
Otis Rush,
South Australian Publishing Ventures and Futuresin association with Michael Zerman and Associates Pty Ltd,
Adelaide
issue 6/7,
1991,
pp.40-47.
Excerpt
Gail Hastings’ works typically feature moulded white shapes, black lines, and books. ‘Architectonics’ is a word that might fit her activity. Except that her floor plans allude to chance as well as structure. Can vagueness be a measure of something?
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