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Placement: On floor
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If [then stares stairs stares] #4
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If [then stares stairs stares] #3
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If [then stares stairs stares] #2
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If [then stares stairs stares] #1
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Exhibition: To Do
Space is structured as a To Do List in preparation for a future event — an exhibition of paintings that will need to be shelved once exhibited.
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Red space holder: forget remember
How a physical space holds thought’s movement as it seeks the central point of a work of art.
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no answer: black
Encyclopaedia of art that falls apart: Encyclopaedia of art that fits together With all her might she presses flat the front doorbell as it wails the summoning monotony of its unrepentant beckoning inside the room. All she needs is an answer, nothing more. Then the situation will finally fit together and make sense. [floorplan detail]…
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So she said
Actual space through a movement between one side and the opposite of a room, of an argument.
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missing walls: bureaucracy at work
The space of a triangle finds its fullest political and geographic expression in Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin’s 1911 plan for Canberra that at first included a national public library at the apex of that triangle atop Capitol Hill — where parliament stands today. Its walls, never built, are remembered through triangular iteration.
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difficult art decisions: wall seven
Space scaled by mistake to result in an exhibition wall built at 30cm high, not 300cm high. This leads to a difficult art decision.
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a sculptural situation to enter, and to leave
The space is a floor plan of a table at which to sit, with a library of entrances.
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A lost feeling
Shelley Lasica on stage with the stares-that-are-stairs component of A Lost Feeling by Gail Hastings, 1993
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This is not an art library
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Medium: Marked Cards
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–…
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No, just an empty square
[floor plan on table]Have you a heart? [floor plan measurements]– 0.2 sighs and 1/2– two more sighs – sigh– 230 sighs– 780th sigh
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Some examples of different ways [with Elizabeth Newman]
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Floor Plan: Spilt Milk
The space is mirrored along the centre axis where the audience sit. A page opened on one side says ‘object : Spilt Milk’ and on the other ‘gnillips ylevitcejbo’
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Room for Love
Room for Love, 1990, as seen at Gertrude Contemporary in 2025. Photograph: Christian Capurro, courtesy the artist and Gertrude Contemporary, © Gail Hastings Photograph: Christian Capurro, courtesy the artist and Gertrude Contemporary, © Gail Hastings
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untitled (rubbish)
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This Performance — A Passing Thought
Space is parenthesised on one side by an open book showing a colour saturated image of a bookshelf full of books and the same bookshelf, now empty, opposite.
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untitled (with kitten)
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untitled (with magazine)
The empty space is the sculpture, the thing to see, except we cannot see it.