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GALLERY I & II
Angelus Novus
MARTIN WESTWOOD
27 Mar – 24 Apr 2004
A
school nursery is constructed in both rooms of Collective
Gallery, a false
ceiling restricts the
height of the rooms to a child’s
scale. Children’s past-times, leaf printing and papier
mache balloons, decorate the space. Murals are displayed
on the walls.
However the space of the child’s past-time, communality
and creativity has been regulated, economised and bureaucratised.
‘Angelus Novus’ relates personal development to the movement
of economics and commercialism. Economic entropy, the movement,
expenditure and wastefulness of market economics is directly related
to the subjective space of the child’s development.
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PROJECT ROOM
Contaminant
MARK HUTCHINSON
27 Mar – 24 Apr 2004
The gallery is in the process of being breached.
At the edge of the room, a small drop of unidentified brown liquid seeps
through the ceiling. On the floor below,
previous drops have left a splattered stain where they have landed. There
is another, long, thin stain on the adjacent wall, where a drop has brushed
the
wall as it fell. It becomes apparent that this wall is bowed, as if under
pressure from the outside. It is at the edge of the gallery. From behind
the wall come
intermittent sounds of liquid dripping, bubbling and gurgling. Facing
the breach is a text. The text is a set of notes on the implications
of making
an artwork
which is a contaminant and on writing a text which is a kind of containment
of a contamination.
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