'Altered Perspectives', 1983.
Installation and performance, "No Name", IMA, Brisbane 1983.
Both 'Installation ’82' (1982) and 'Altered Perspectives' (1983). were works which evolved during the exhibition. Whereas in 'Installation’82' I had been periodically present, with 'Altered Perspectives' I was working in the gallery each day for prolonged periods of time and the actual production of the work itself was taking place in front of people’s eyes. Inevitably visitors would pause to engage in a dialogue about the work. So that in an ‘untheatrical’ and pragmatic way the artist and the act of production, was on display and revealed within the gallery space. Thus not only did the work itself try to make visible the invisible in the context of some energetic ‘natural’ phenomenon that ‘innocently’ occupied the gallery system (a transient beam of light) but it also, for a space of time, brought the energy and the activity of the artist into the gallery as ‘an exhibit’. This was ‘the performance’ as the productive processes of the artwork. Yet what was also drawn forth into the gallery space and made visibly present was the artist as social agent involved in a dialogue with an audience.
