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.