Installation '82
Installation and performance 1982
Installation ’82, was part of the Sculpture Society’s Festival ’82 Exhibition, held in what is now known as Metro Arts, Brisbane. The work responded to the site. The corner I chose had three windows. Two of the windows were side by side like identical twins. One was operational, the other was permanently closed, a hand printed message scrawled across its surface, ‘DON’T OPEN’. The third window was on the end wall. I papered these walls, carefully cutting around the two outer windows and continuing across the third. I then shellaced the paper. This created a taut screen or veil on which the concealed window was mapped. This took place at consecutive hours, consecutive days. The artwork evolved over the duration of the exhibition, the traces of the shadow creating a palimpsest. What was recorded was the passage of the sun across the room over the duration of the exhibition. What was witnessed was a form of ‘performed creativity’ rather than a creative performance. What was made visible was the work of the artist.
