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Placement: On wall and floor
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Cylindrical space lined by yellow
Real space receives dimensions through self-reference.
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Background
The background in a photo by Russian artist Alexander Rodchenko of fellow artists Varvara Stepanova, is in shadow. Stepanova is in the foreground looking towards her right. She wears a dress made from fabric printed with a pattern of her own design. Varying geometric densities of background darkness reveal the angle Rodchenko had taken the…
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behind you: red
ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MEMORY IN ART ‘That’s opposite to how I see it’, said the artist. ‘The artwork’s whole consists of a small actual part and a large thought part, behind you.’ ‘No, no, no’, replied the viewer. ‘It consists of a large actual part and a small thought part, behind you.’ Details on the watercolour…
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behind you: blue
Spatial process completed by forever turning to find the missing part in memory behind you.
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plans
The space isn’t a given. The artwork has to build it.
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Negative space.1
Encyclopaedia of hidden messagesThe undercover intelligence agent looked for the secret message code name negative space hiddenhere, somewhere, but couldn’t find it.– chair
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setting the scene for nobody
Finish setting the scene for nobody by checking whether you have put in place the: 1. row of paintings nobody likes? yes / no 2. corner protectors for marks nobody leaves? yes / no 3. ringing of a telephone that nobody can answer? yes / no 4. photographs of corner-paintings taken with nobody in mind?…
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situation no. 41: happy new year
Space forms through a movement between a pattern’s repetition at different scales. The pattern first appears as a Happy New Year card sent through the post.
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art opinion no. 637
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mission: untitled (blue)
Above and first image below, as seen in ‘Projections’ at the David Pestorius Gallery, Berlin, in 1999. The painting, Kaiserdamm bag and There: Contemporary Art Magazine components of the sculptuation all feature in a film ‘mission: untitled (blue)’. The grid of orange circles on the cover of There is a plan view of a Berlin…
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difficult art decisions: wall six
Space spans the connection between an artwork newly installed on wall 6, and the awkward coincidence of the same material used in a chair’s cushion in the room housing the newly installed artwork.
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encyclopaedia of somewhere: naples yellow
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art idea no. 8,582,048 [part 2]
Epic space of an art idea: part 1. A critique of the art idea removed its centre to enable sight of the other‘s opposite position through the art idea, and subsequently lost the art idea’s centre.
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art opinion no. 636
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Untitled discussion no. 4
A physical space opens between a framed watercolour on a wall and a yellow handbag close by, in which a discussion takes place.
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difficult art decisions: walls four and five
The space of an exhibition room includes difficult decisions on how best to ensure close-by wall protectors are not mistaken to be the work of art on exhibition.
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art opinion no. 635
Berlin, Adelaide, Brisbane Space in art often defies authorities’ recognition of its occurrence as something to note.
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To make a work of ordered art
Statements, Art Basel, 1997 Space bridges two opposing ravines — the space of a page (representations of reality) and the space in which one lives a life (reality). Both ravines are depthless gulfs except for the solid ground of space that connects them.
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To complete a work of contemporary art
Encyclopaedia of patterns in contemporary artTo complete the pattern in this work of contemporary art you must first walk into a room in which there is a blue-cubed cushion on top of a white chair. In this room you will find a pattern of repetitive squares that has a missing part (see asterisk*). There is…
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coincidence at 5:58 pm
Space takes sculptural form separate to the space of the room through the coincidence of a blue and red handbag.
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coincidence at 5:57 pm
The content of a space wrought through coincidence will remain missing if its meaning is treated as an object of significance a gallery can place on a plinth. For instance, on ’empty plinth: u’.
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coincidence at 5:54 pm
Space, often treated as an empty container, becomes an object in itself through the casual, everyday placement of a handbag on the back of a chair.
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coincidence at 5:51 pm
Space in a sculptural situation takes form through many mindless actions such as habitually hanging ones handbag on the back of a chair. If meaning is missing in habitual acts, so too is the possibility of seeing the sculptural situation.
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To make a work of spontaneous art
Is actual space in art spontaneous? Can we instantly see it? Can we immediately differentiate an artwork’s space from the space of a room? Shouldn’t it be as automatic as the four legs of a chair? Or, are we having to reach for it before it falls — with some moments met and others missed?
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a silent cube
Space takes the shape of a room in which a telephone rings at 8:30pm on Monday 29 July 1996. The next time it rings, it is 11:25pm.
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To make a work of timeless art
Space is wrapped around by this moment, a moment separate from a betrayal of that moment, its abandonment, even though, when we were in that moment it, equally, was this moment.
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To make a work of thoughtful art
The space of a thought is cut out as a three-dimensional shape from a two-dimensional red painted square.
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Encyclopaedia of Broken Patterns
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Drawn Lines
Physical space we inhabit shaped not by architecture, but by the lines we draw in our lives between one thing (e.g. friends) and another (e.g. family).
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pages 32, 28, 19, 7, 2 and one
The space of a hotel room spans the construction of a 32 page novel.
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feeling felt = a touch too much
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divisions between friends
Catalogue image of petit fours as yet to be consumed by friends [Text on table]– place for friend no. 1– place for friend no. 2– place for friend no. 3– place for friend no. 4– place for friend no. 5 [Text on wall]divisions between friendswhere: 1 Hope = 12 Circumstances1 Ci = 12 Immeasurabilities1 Im = 12 Deliberations [Text…
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Floor plan: Empty, except
The space is measured not in feet and inches (American measurements that reference Mel Bochner’s ‘Measurement Room’ of 1969) , but conversations, thoughts and inconsequences