Gallery Connections
1991-6
Audio and mixed media
unconfirmed: 645 x 110 x 450 mm installation Presented by the Patrons of New Art (Special Purchase Fund) through the Tate Gallery Foundation 1997 T07294
Angus Fairhurst is an influential member of the group of artists associated with London's College in the late 1980s. Gallery Connections, 1991, is based on recordings of a series of contrived telephone exchanges between unwitting gallery employees. Fairhurst rang two different galleries simultaneously and then held the handsets together. He himself does not participate and remains silent, while the speakers who are initially disoriented, gradually become more hostile. The transparent desk exposes the sound equipment supposedly 'hidden' inside, subverting any sense of surveillance.
(From the display caption August 2004)
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