Denis Masi - Yard 1978 – 1979

Twelve 362cm lengths of rough timber, two theatre profile spot lights with red and orange filters, large cream coloured tarpaulin floor covering with eyelets and cord attachments, one sack of dry builders sand, one sheet of mirror, nine meters of coiled chrome plated barbed wire, one felt and stringed black package, small tape recorder, two speakers, tape loop of slow growling dogs triggered by a photo-electric cell system, two stuffed dogs, atmosphere in immediate area of construction invested with offensive odour.

List Description:

• two dogs
• two profile spot lights with red and orange filters
  
• twenty 362 cm lengths of timber
• one tarpaulin fourteen foot square
  
• one sack of dry course sand
  
• one sheet of mirror
  
• nine meters of coiled chrome plated barbed wire
  
• one felt and stringed package
  
• tape loop of slow growling dog triggered by a photo-electric cell
  
• atmosphere in immediate area of construction invested with offensive odour

Exhibition provenance / history:

• ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, Main Gallery, London 1979
• Spectro Arts Workshop, Gallery 1, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1980