ON TAP cle ;

by _PiK 7 Same

A heady bit of info to begin: there's 7 weeks left before
the annual meltdown of our Art Factory's power plant !

No fewer than 54 separate trips in and out of the Scott Gal-
lery will do justice to each work of the Graphex 8 exhibition. The
works have some kind of unity together as a collection, besides th
fact that they are all behind glass. But once again my limited
vocabulurallie fails me in getting a clue from the word ''graphex''.
But whether or not we get the right semantic box, the werk itself
has a high quality and is worth your time and concentration.

In the upper Concourse,Linda Carter's alleyway ''click''sation
gives us a superb design oriented photographic display. Downstairs
Abbi . Vechter's painted canvas cutouts make a unique exhibition,
which | understand is causing some mental probing among students
as to the nature of the painting arts. Newly on the lounge wall
are two enigmatic works by Pieter Kos - enigmatic because of the
puzzling conceptual and perceptual tension interplayed with deeper
stratums of intellectual and sensory provocation - comprend!? (me, teo)

Doug Wier, our Facilities Manager, seems to be pioneering new
frontiers between art and bureaucracy. He was noticed last week
deeply engrossed in a performance piece which bad. him clad in white
overalls, wielding a screwdriver, and dangling from a ladder.

Rather than documenting this work, he chose to leave a rehinged
locker door as factual evidence of his artistic creativity.

One ingredient in creative ability is lateral
thinking; but this supra-logical skill seems to
dissolve with prolonged doses of orthodox: education. :
Humour is another element which either disappears 07 EDIDN'T THINK

KRIPES!/

as oul .
or turns black with age. What, you may ask, are k ee ie

these words of widom leading up to? This: check cA
out your own cerebral computer with this joke, |
as told verbatim by a three year old Galliano
girl to her mother: ‘What touches its fingers

up to the roof? (A;jop Aw)

'Nuff said, eh? Until next week, boys and
women. Meanwhile, Im in search of a 3 year old
to clue me in and unjam my atrophied mind.