day 6, tues 3 nov: jason sweeney and collaborator fiona sprott set up in the bookshop. in this vid. jason reads from samuel beckett's 1953 novel The Unnamable (1:27)
during the week they will: 1. be reading texts at random from the dark horsey bookshop shelves and recording the readings on a reel to reel tape deck; 2 gathering stories for their project faceless from visitors who have something to tell about the darker side of social networking.
d1 tues 27 oct: ardi gunawan begins the consultation with michael grimm, gallery manager … no the chairs can't be in front of the entrance/exit
d1 ardi: footprint for gallery walls drawn up in consultation with james currie, first visitor (& incidentally an architect)
& then the walls are moved
d2: katherine huang incorporates margit's marking materials - bridging spaces at a minor scale
d2 ardi: the elevation
d2 ardi: wall movements – force brace
d2 ardi: model/macquette (the grass, the sticky tape, the glass) the precarious-ness of it all
d2 ardi, edges …
… & voids
d3 29 oct: will it slip? matthew bradley (on his knees), ardi gunawan, michael grimm (gallery manager)
d3 ardi does a runner to test precarious strengths & material forces (he feels safe enough)
d3 WALL become's another kind of plane along with the filing cabinet retrieved from the store clean-up; annette lawrence's date drawing on the wall (right)
d3 back a little (behind once-was-wall) michalis pichler's kuh has been bought out of the store
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d4 30 oct: katherine huang groups objects together at different locations around the gallery
carefully placed, wooden cubes (solid & emptied), planes of mirror, moulded plaster forms
held at oblique angles by clamps, katherin huang in the foreground, from left at back - nick selenitsch pole, ardi gunawan wall dislocation, jacobus capone directions for the body (detail) & danielle freakley graf writing
katherine: textures and weights
vents and pipes to let air in or out - a flow of some sort
katherine huang, ply, porcelain slip mould
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d5 katherine huang
d4: ardi gunawan, "and this, i think, is more of a direct response or continuation of Nick Selenitch's gesture, which was to erase Jacobus's project but in a different form. i scrubbed Jacobus's pencil marks on the floor with sugar soap and now i am making another mess which was a puddle of plaster on top of the area where i'm cleaning." – ardi in reply to questions from danielle freakley
d5: ardi erases the floor drawings and makes a spill. in the image are: utensils for cleaning pencil off floor, jacobus (the grass, the pencil traces around the grass), nick (the grass in glass)
d5: ardi spill detail (plaster)
d6: jason and fiona in the bookshop recording samuel beckett
day 6, how to read the picture: from left top, jacobus capone - documentation video by jess wallace, chairs stacked & walls moved (ardi), remains of grass on wall (jacobus capone), canvas (yhonnie scarce); blue pole (nick selenitsch), through into the bookshop jason sweeney and fiona sprott, back into gallery - grafitti (danielle freakley) over grass remaining on wall (jacobus)
1. She wanders out of the house she has lived in for most of her life. Dressed with the abandon of one who has lost something very important to her, she walks barefoot into the traffic with the optimism of one who believes herself to be invisible. This woman is no longer an inhabitant of the real world. Damaged beyond repair, she seeks departure from all that has held her together, held her in place, given her context. A neighbour, concerned to find this woman has left the front door open, will venture inside, uninvited and discover a note. The text is simple, it reads: I am gone.
d6: fiona sprott reads/records some of the stories collected for faceless
d7 4 nov: jess wallace filming jason → aeaf documents artist-in-residence) [select to watch films jess has produced including bridget currie, regulators & an interview with aeaf director & artist domenico de clario]
d7: in between reading jason made a gint gint remix from all the videos loaded on to the project web site - → mp3 10mb (offsite)
d8: katherine huang (middle) jess wallace shooting footage for web doco gone in no time
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d9: at the faceless table, fiona sprott & jason sweeney
d9: photo by ardi gunawan
d9: domenico de clario lights up the gallery in preparation for closing performance. photo by ardi gunawan
d9 - katherine huang on right, her installation (centre) involves precise arrangements of interlocked minor scaffolding, the sort home office furniture is made from, porcelain moulds of the ends of connecting rods or bits of wood, a loosened bundle of flueroescant pink plastic cord, furnishing material swatches, …
d9: foreground katherine huang, background ardi gunawan & domencio de clario light. photo by jason sweeney and or fiona sprott
d9: photo by ardi gunawan
inside the wall, photo by fiona sprott or jason sweeney
videos by teri hoskin except where otherwise acknowledged
