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Untitled: Modular Unit (BAG) (2004)
This performative sculpture was made during an invited residency period in Bhaktapur , Nepal. It consisted of twenty laundry bags stitched together width ways to create a concertina. It still clearly referenced minimalism with its use of repetition and modular forms, but the key difference was that the art object was not emptied of all content, it still performed a function (albeit in a fairly dysfunctional way) of a container, thus it still retained its use value.
This sculpture was literally on the move both in terms of its physicality and its signification. The work became in-between, it could not formally function as sculpture or bag yet it could also been seen and experienced as both. It was hoped that the piece encouraged the viewer to perform a self-regarding gaze, placing the viewer in a confused state that was suspended between the either or dichotomy.
During the course of the exhibition I moved the sculpture/bag to a series of locations so the object 'turned up' in many different locations. It became an object of deferral, an object that occupies both a place and a non-place, problematizing both.