Event Type: Solo
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Behind You: Three sculptuations by Gail Hastings
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Living Room: To stare at a stare
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Exhibition: To Do
A review by Chloé Wolifson Gail Hastings’ major new work Exhibition: To Do is anchored around a large square plywood structure that sits on the earth’s axis – the walls respectively facing north, south, east and west. The visitor is invited to enter the structure, also entitled Exhibition: To Do, via an opening in its eastern wall. This has…
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Sydney Contemporary 13
It is with great pleasure that The Commercial Gallery announces it now represents Gail Hastings and will present a solo exhibition of her work at the inaugural Sydney Contemporary art fair between 19 and 22 September at Carriageworks, Sydney (Booth PC102). It is exciting to be showing new work by this important mid-career Australian artist…
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Space you can’t sit on: The space in Today
Half exhibition, half archival room – this exhibition presents a number of sculptuations that focus on the creation of space. The exhibition’s title refers, in part, to an included work in which the spatially isolated letters of the word ‘today’ invoke a daily fragmentation that nevertheless come together as one in the end – as ‘Today’. Called…
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Encounter: Stephen Sinn
In this exhibition there is one work, ‘encounter: Stephen Sinn’. The word ‘encounter’ surfaced during discussion after Fr Steve spent some very long moments silently looking at the work for the first time. For him, the term tended to encapsulate not only the movement happening in the work, but its parallel with what was most…
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Leave the line standing
After much squabbling over how best to cut the piece of wood, with jigsaw in hand I decided to ignore Mick and get on with the job as I always do — uncomfortable with his audience but, nevertheless — when Mick made a last ditched effort and said, ‘leave the line standing’. Standing? Line? I…
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Sculptural Situations: Gail Hastings
Perth born Hastings is a singular artist distinguished by the extraordinary focus of her practice. … Consistently describing her work as ‘a space made for others’ Hastings creates what she calls ‘invisible architectures’ that invite the viewer to enter a dialogue with what they observe. … As ‘the artist’ Hastings eschews a central position in her…
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Overheard Conversation: Sculptural Situations by Gail Hastings
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But is it art?
As in a detective story, or the scene of a crime, everything is primed or poised for meaning. That corridor to the library and that picture on the wall: everything in the mystery seems chosen, asking us why it is there. Everyone becomes a suspect. We bring our private eyes along and take partial views…
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PLANS: a sculptural situation by Gail Hastings
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Gail Hastings: multiples, books, prints, editions, etc.
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mission: untitled (blue)
It used to be said of experimental art that it didn’t really need an audience to view it…. Experimentation for its own sake was to be sufficient … Of course this was before — or despite — some people reckoning that the value of art was actually something produced in the exchange between artists and…
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Gail Hastings: Sculptural Situation 1989–2000
Included sculptuations: a sculptural situation to enter, and to leave, 2000 a sculptural situation, drawn in, 2000 a sculptural situation’s architectonic colour-space, 2000 Encyclopaedia of possibilities: Mon 14.9.95, 1995 magazine – mission: untitled (blue), 1999 Movie directions for secret agents, 1994 pattern book five, 1996 poster: a sculptural situation (drawn in), 2000 stare two, 1997…
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Sorry, we are closed
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I views
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apparently not
The Director said, ‘action’, he acted, he said ‘apparently not’, then the Director said, ‘cut’. This ‘take’ was done 10 times. Then, at night for ten nights, he dreamt each take in detail. One take was selected and the movie completed. For ten weeks the movie was shown at the movie house in his nome town.…
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art idea no. 8,582,048
Hastings takes up artistic idioms and presentational forms of conceptual art and charges them sensually. She combines conceptual strategies with the language and aesthetics of action-related, factual texts … and stages these through the employment of a markedly material aesthetics. Her art opens up a dialogue on the origins, significance and function of ‘works’ and…
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art idea no. 8,582,048
Hastings takes up artistic idioms and presentational forms of conceptual art and charges them sensually. She combines conceptual strategies with the language and aesthetics of action-related, factual texts … and stages these through the employment of a markedly material aesthetics. Her art opens up a dialogue on the origins, significance and function of ‘works’ and…
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art opinion no. 636
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Untitled discussions
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To complete a work of contemporary art
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forgotten encyclopaedias
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Statements Art 28‘97 Basel
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two and three stares
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two corners and a cube
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Duality: a series of weekly exhibitions during April 1997
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four coincidences
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To make a work of timeless art
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To make a work of timeless art
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.
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Art 1996 Chicago
To find the time in this work of art …
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out of time: part two
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To make a work of timeless art
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.
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To make a work of thoughtful art
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rule c: Remember, the aesthetic outcome of this exercise is purely due to chance and circumstance. It bears no reflection on you, personally.
rule b: Upon the conclusion of your endeavour, title and date this form appropriately: not without, however, the promise that whilst the outcome might be baffling, that the process was — at least — truthful to, and trustful of, the moment. … rule c: Remember, the aesthetic outcome of this exercise is purely due to…
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Drawn Lines
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Room 32
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well actually
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Belles-lettres
Belles-lettre is a project consisting of separate installations by three artists, Maureen Burns, Gail Hastings and Virginia Ward. Based in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth respectively, each has devised a site-specific work for ACCA which explores new definitions of sculpture and the relationships between object, text and space. The ephemeral nature of the communications — both…