As in a detective story, or the scene of a crime, everything is primed or poised for meaning. That corridor to the library and that picture on the wall: everything in the mystery seems chosen, asking us why it is there. Everyone becomes a suspect. We bring our private eyes along and take partial views of the whole. In the meantime we interview eyewitnesses, flick through art catalogues, and try to second-guess the spooks. It’s an environment of suspicion, and we have to read between the lines. It’s a bit like our current political situation, a culture of duplicity … . Along the way Hastings calls our attention to art. To the status of the art object as material and on our own processes of production and reception.
Exhibition | |
Date: | 07/Nov/2003 to 29/Nov/2003 |
At: | The Cross Art Projects, Sydney |
List of Works: |
by Gail Hastings But is it art? blue, green, light green But is it art? magenta, violet, red But is it art? orange, magenta, dark blue But is it art? red, blue, violet But is it art? violet, titanium, orange Encyclopaedia of Time in Art: pp. 1-3 primed canvas (charcoal grey) primed canvas (may green) The Big Coverup: white with blue stripe to enter, to leave (no. 2) |
Bibliography: | George Alexander, ‘Primed Suspects: Gail Hastings’ Sculptural Situations’, But is it Art?: Sculptural Situations by Gail Hastings, exhibition catalogue, The Cross Art Projects, Sydney 2003. Lisa Kelly, ‘If Anything.’, in Gwynneth Porter and Dan Arps (ed.), Natural Selection Magazine, issue 1, 2004, pp.7.1–7.2 http://naturalselection.org.nz/archive/1/1.7_Lisa_Ruark.pdf. Ruark Lewis, ‘An emailed note concerning an art talk by Gail Hastings’, in Gwynneth Porter and Dan Arps (ed.), Natural Selection Magazine, issue 1, 2004, p.7.3, http://naturalselection.org.nz/archive/1/1.7_Lisa_Ruark.pdf. |
The Cross Art Projects Dir: Jo Holder 33 Roslyn Street |
14 July 1989 Gail Hastings Installation 1989 / Fergus Armstrong Photograph 1989, Store 5, Melbourne
12 August 1989 Suzannah Barta, Sandra Bridie, Lyndell Brown, Gail Hastings, Store 5, Melbourne
11 November 1989 A3 20, Store 5, Melbourne
30 November 1989 This Performance — A Passing Thought, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
1 December 1989 S.W.I.M. Fund Raiser, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
1 March 1991 Exsultate, Jubilate, Store 5, Melbourne
21 April 1990 Room for Love, Store 5, Melbourne
18 August 1990 Uses of Chaos, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
20 September 1990 4th Australian Sculpture Triennial Forum, Melbourne Lower Town Hall, Melbourne
9 October 1990 Dis-location, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
13 October 1990 Drawings, Store 5, Melbourne
14 November 1990 Floor Plan: Empty, except, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
6 April 1991 Some examples of different ways, Store 5, Melbourne
27 April 1991 No, just an empty square, Store 5, Melbourne
1 August 1991 Production, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
7 August 1991 Australian Perspecta 1991, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
11 December 1991 Gail Hastings & Elizabeth Newman, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
5 December 1995 Lovers, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
7 March 1996 To make a work of timeless art, Artspace, Sydney
20 March 1996 Road to Love, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
20 April 1996 out of time: part two, David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane
9 May 1996 Art 1996 Chicago, David Pestorius Gallery, Chicago
24 August 1996 Reservoir, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie
22 September 1996 The Pool, Centenary Pools, Brisbane
3 October 1996 To make a work of timeless art, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
30 November 1996 To make a work of timeless art, David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane
7 March 1997 Wall as Medium?, David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane
4 April 1997 four coincidences, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
8 May 1997 Art 1997 Chicago, David Pestorius Gallery, Chicago
23 May 1997 two corners and a cube, Galerie Köstring/Maier, München
30 May 1997 On Dialogue, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
7 June 1997 two and three stares, Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich
11 June 1997 Statements Art 28‘97 Basel, David Pestorius Gallery, Basel
2 August 1997 forgotten encyclopaedias, 24 Church Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
1 September 1997 Art Forum Berlin 1997, David Pestorius Gallery, Berlin
6 December 1998 art idea no. 8,582,048, Bahnwärterhaus, Esslingen
5 March 1999 art idea no. 8,582,048, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
21 April 1999 projections, David Pestorius Gallery, Berlin
30 April 1999 apparently not, David Pestorius Gallery, Berlin
12 June 1999 I views, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
10 September 1999 Open House, Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane
11 September 1999 Sorry, we are closed, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
25 January 2003 sculptural situation: plans, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
4 April 2003 In Conversation, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
6 June 2003 Hothouse: The flower in contemporary art, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
3 September 2003 Private/Corporate II, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
7 November 2003 But is it art?, The Cross Art Projects, Sydney