29 March 2011

Puppet Culture Framing System

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Museums Australia Magazine currently features on its cover a Puppet Culture Framing System component from a 1980 exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.

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That exhibition began on April Fools Day 1980 ...

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... with only one full set of its exhibition components formally on display :
one Work Of Art (Painting)
one (red) Puppet Culture Framing System
one sheet of Art Titles and daily newspaper headlines
one photograph of peoples in action
one newspaper banner SCREAMING TEENS MOB PAINTINGS
red fluorescent lights inside
red filters on the windows



Twenty-nine more of these component sets
- Thirty days hath September, April June and November -
were stacked assembly-line ready opposite the presentation of April 1.


After that
with each new day
another set of world events
another something on display
...
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detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

someone looks at something ...


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