Size: medium
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Afternoon Tea at 4:00pm
Actual space takes place outside (separate to) a room while inside (a part of) the room through a coincidence of opposites at 4:00pm when afternoon tea is served.
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Cylindrical space lined by yellow
Real space receives dimensions through self-reference.
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colour circle: four colour scheme for a room
The relationship between actual space and colour space is explored by two secret intelligence agents: one from outside (actual space) the other from inside (colour space).
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Replica of an original space: yellow green
An original space, its encased replica, and an Art Squad caught in a situation.
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Replica of an original space: blue light
An original space encased inside a blue-light cyclic quadrilateral on the wall. And an Art Squad that cannot verify its legitimacy.
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Difficult art decisions: The Blue Pattern
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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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Corner
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Space holder for a blue, white and green space
Is space a waste of thought without use to society? Or does thought’s relation to space enable society? — Two questions debated over a despatch box made of rosewood.
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Space holder for a yellow, white and red space
Is space a waste of thought without use to society? Or does thought’s relation to space enable society? — Two questions debated over a despatch box made of rosewood.
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encounter: Stephen Sinn
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meandering space: red, grey and brown
Encyclopaedia of a meandering connection in artIn the outer room, she could not find the centre — the meaning. In the central room, she could not find the outer form — the meaning’s presence. After much toing and froing between the two in search for the missing part of each, she suddenly realised it was…
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meandering space: turquoise, dark blue and green
Encyclopaedia of a meandering connection in artIn the outer room, he could not find the centre — the meaning. In the central room, he could not find the outer form — the meaning’s presence. After much toing and froing between the two in search for the missing part of each, he suddenly realised it was…
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sides: red versus blue
Encyclopaedia of being on the wrong side in art a. An unknown red in the known space of art where everything has already to be known to be art. b. A known blue in the unknown space of art where everything has as yet to be known to be art. c. Where an ongoing discussion…
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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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a sculptural situation’s architectonic colour-space
A space in which — while measuring the effect of pink’s distance from yellow — someone mentioned the artist Grace Crowley.
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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: 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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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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Encyclopaedia of Broken Patterns
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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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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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feeling felt = a touch too much
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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]](https://gailhastings.au/wp-content/uploads/1991/04/Some-examples-of-different-ways6.jpg)
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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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.