Exhibition announcement/booklet mailed
through the post to regular gallery visitors
Exhibition announcement/booklet mailed
through the post to regular gallery visitors
Specifications
This Performance — A Passing Thought is made of pigmented wax on timber, acrylic on wood, blank book except centre pages. Built components made by Gail Hastings. Typesetting by Gail Hastings.
The work comprises five components with an overall measurement of 7w x 3d x 1h m.
30/11/1989 | This Performance — A Passing Thought, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne |
Bibliography
Engberg Juliana,
‘Shelf Life / New York’,
in Juliana Engberg (ed.),
Agenda Contemporary Art Magazine,
issue 9,
1989,
p.32.
Hastings Gail,
This Performance — A Passing Thought,
exhibition catalogue,
Gertrude Contemporary,
Melbourne
1989.
Excerpt
Something like a theatre set. A composed set of props forming the context for a performance. This, a small set, consists of a bookshelf, a table, a book, a floor. Almost a reflective set, if it were not for its symmetry being flawed by a lapses in time. Symmetries seem quietly self contained whereas a flaw gives access to speech. This performance is of a passage o though, like those that traverse black inked paths forming lines, loops, commas and full stops.
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