first draft- artist proposal

Sydney,2000

The installation is site specific and the work will be specially created for the space. The architectural features of gallery spaces become an intrinsic part in the conceptualization of the show.

The main feature of the installation will be a cube structure formed by curtains of red plastic beads hanging from the ceiling beams in Gallery 2.  The curtains will follow ten consecutive beams creating a perfect cube with 10 segmentations. The cube will occupy most of the space, approximately 4x4m, leaving a border of “negative space” for the gallery-goer to walk around.  The preceding space at Gallery 1 will act as a preamble and conduct the gallery-goer through four successive curtains of red beads running parallel to the entrance.  The entrance to the gallery will also have a curtain of red beads.

Upon entering the space the gallery -goer is forced to physically brush through a curtain of red plastic beads.  As he/she proceeds forwards, the outcries of flamenco coming from the end room, will interact with the twinkling sound of the beads.  Sound detectors on top of the railing will absorb and reproduce the sound produced.

Confronted by the cube the gallery -goer has to choose to either physically pierce the cube by entering it or walk in the “negative space” outside it.

Inside the cube one experiences a tingling sensation brought about by the contact with the free flowing beads and together with the long and deep flamenco cries the sensation produced may be one of vulnerability or intimacy as one is almost invaded by unavoidably having to touch and be touched .The gallery- goer will feel a very strong sense of her/his physical body and how it relates to the space.

As a whole there is a realisation that there is a lack of solidity in the entire space.  Physical matter becomes translucent and free flowing. The gallery-goer enters into the becoming -molecular and dissolves into space.

First  Draft

Sydney , Dec 2000

 

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