Yard
Yard
1978 – 1979
425 x 425 x 185 cm
A large freestanding sculpture / construction with its own light, sound and smell systems
- two dogs
- two profile spot lights with red and orange filters
- two loudspeakers
- twenty 362cm lengths of rough timber
- one tarpaulin fourteen foot square
- one sack of dry course sand
- one sheet of mirror
- one tape deck
- 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
- two timber box / columns to house the tape deck and photo-electric cell mechanism
- atmosphere in immediate area of the sculpture / construction invested with offensive odour
Exhibition provenance
ICA, Main Gallery, London, 1979
Spectro Arts Workshop, Gallery 1, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1980