Denis Masi - Search 1975 - 1977
A freestanding construction / sculpture - one side affixed to a wall.
Wood standardized chair, plinth and table with glass cabinet case all on castors, one roll with fittings of white photographic background paper, photogram and a group of obscure found and fabricated objects and devices arranged in a particular manner, theatre profile spotlight on a mild steel stand, speaker and small tape recorder, tape loop, six stuffed rats, metal rate cage, atmosphere in immediate area of the construction invested with the odour of ether vapour.
List description:
- Six hooded rats
- One profile spotlight (no filter) on stand
• table / cabinet case with obscure objects and devices arranged in a particular manner - Stylized chair between spotlight and table / cabinet case
- Angled platform with rat cage
• tape loop of rat sounds / cry's ultrasonic and audible:
1 - fear call
2 - attacking call
3 - submission call
4 - mating call
• atmosphere in immediate area of construction invested with a heavy musty odour or ether vapour
Exhibition provenance / history:
- ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, Main Gallery, London, 1979
- Stadtsche Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, 1981
- Joanneum Ecksaal, Landstadmuseum, Graz, 1987