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  • Exhibition: To Do

    Exhibition: To Do

    ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF AN EXHIBITION TO DO LIST
    [ ]
    [ ] Be patient, breathe, make a cup of tea;
    [ ] Test the necessity’s audacity to survive the struggle;
    [ ]
    [ ]

    [floor plan detail]
    – East Entrance;
    – horizontal intervals of patience

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    ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF AN EXHIBITION TO DO LIST
    [ ] Surrender to an aesthetic necessity to make new art;
    [ ]
    [ ]
    [ ] Make the art for an upcoming exhibition;
    [ ]

    [floor plan detail]
    – East Entrance;
    – interstices of patience and breath;
    – removable shelves in which to store art

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    ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF AN EXHIBITION TO DO LIST
    [ ]
    [ ]
    [ ]
    [ ]
    [ ✓ ] Build racks in which to store the art after the exhibition.

    [floor plan detail]
    – East Entrance;
    – vertical intervals of breath;
    – where a to-do list was all over the place, thwarted, while somehow also in one place, cohered

  • missing walls: bureaucracy at work

    missing walls: bureaucracy at work

    Encyclopaedia of Art on Walls Never Made

    ‘No’, replied the bureaucrat when asked whether these are the four walls — blue, yellow, red and black — that form the central chamber of the library that crowns the brow of this nation’s thoughts and qualms, at the crest of this nation’s conscience, atop Capitol Hill. ‘No’, reiterated the bureaucrat, ‘these four walls are a fiction, a fraud. The library was planned, but never built: a conversation intended, but never had.’

    • empty
    • where a conversation was planned but never took place
    • The ‘Encyclopaedia of Art on Walls Never Made’
    • missing Shelves
    • Where the transcripts of Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin’s  conversations on their 1911 plan for Canberra are stored.
    • missing wall: red
    • missing wall: black
    • a chair someone has borrowed and forgotten to return, leaving it stranded around the corner, somewhere
    • missing table
    • Black Mountain
    • Mt. Ainslie
    • Capitol
    • 1911 Canberra plan
    • A library at the apex of a nation: that nation’s history, that nation’s conversation with itself
  • To make a work of timeless art

    To make a work of timeless art

    photo: Christopher Snee

    A watercolour page from the Encyclopaedia of Timeless Art is first seen intact on the exhibition announcement card posted to regular gallery visitors prior to the exhibition. The page slips from the vertical plane of 2D to the horizontal plane of 3D.

    photo: Alex Davies

    Encyclopaedia of Timeless Art
    To make a work of timeless art please follow the guidelines below.

    1. Enter a room in which there is a yellow line and pink circle.
    2. While in this room hold a pen above the blue square below, close your eyes and think of the moment you were last betrayed. With eyes still closed, let your hand fall and mark the page.
    3. Cut out this ‘moment of betrayal’ into a circle and place it on top of the plinth on page six, the room you are now in.
    4. To finish this work of timeless art turn to page seven, ask someone close by the time and date and complete this information in the spaces provided.

    ~ page 5 ~

    photo: Alex Davies

    Encyclopaedia of Timeless Art
    <—— this moment ——> in the room for finding time.

    ~ page 6 ~

    Encyclopaedia of Timeless Art
    To complete this work of timeless art please ask someone close by the time ________ and date ______.

    ~ page 7 ~

    [floor plan details]
    Room for Finding Time
    – a watercolour depicting this time
    – table for taking away the time from time, one colour at a time
    – a moment less blue
    – chair for remembering this time
    – shelf for storing see-through times of forgotten colours

    photo: Alex Davies

  • divisions between friends

    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 friends
    where: 1 Hope = 12 Circumstances
    1 Ci = 12 Immeasurabilities
    1 Im = 12 Deliberations

    [Text on the five petits fours remaining pastry papers]
    – friend 1, for 12/60ths of the time, found the circumstances unbearable.
    – friend 2, in 24/60ths of the time, imagined five hopes.
    – friend 3, for 36/60ths of the time, looked the other way.
    – friend 4, in 48/60ths of the time, summed the 5 figures incorrectly.
    – friend 5, for 60/60ths of the time, deliberated over whether to tell a lie.

Gail Hastings