Missing Rooms, ‘Collins Street’, 5 pm 1994 first appeared in well actually at the Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, in 1994. Missing Rooms, ‘Collins Street’, 5 pm is a standalone artwork. The artwork's medium includes watercolour and lead pencil on paper (framed), measuring, overall, Missing Rooms, ‘Collins Street’, 5 pm is in a public collection: BHP, Melbourne, 1994.
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Encyclopaedia of Missing Rooms
fig. 5 – library: Collins Street, 5pm 1955 by John Brack
[text] What about if we meet outside the bank in Collins Street, 5pm and I’ll tell you about how the movie ends.
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Encyclopaedia of Missing Rooms
fig. 5 – library: Collins Street, 5pm 1955 by John Brack
[text] Sure – except – that bank isn’t in Collins Street, it’s 137-139 Flinders Lane.
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Encyclopaedia of Missing Rooms
fig. 5 – library: Collins Street, 5pm 1955 by John Brack
[text] Yeah, but the story goes that at 5pm Brack will concertina the street and some parts of the city, bringing together particular bits while folding the rest into recesses behind.
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Encyclopaedia of Missing Rooms
fig. 5 – library: Collins Street, 5pm 1955 by John Brack
[text] Ah! So at 5pm the bank will end up in Collins Street, I see.
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Encyclopaedia of Missing Rooms
fig. 5 – library: Collins Street, 5pm 1955 by John Brack
[text] H’m. Life will be pretty treacherous around 5pm so mind you don’t get caught in any of those rooms folded behind – or we’ll never meet – and that’s not how way the movie ends.
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floorplan captions:
– Room for those in Collins Street, 5pm with names beginning between B-G
– Room for those in Collins Street, 5pm with names beginning between H-M
– Room for those in Collins Street, 5pm with names beginning between N-S
– Room for those in Collins Street, 5pm with names beginning between T-Y
– missing room of memory
04/05/1994 | well actually, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne |