SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Fiona Hall

"Subject to Change", a publication by Fiona Hall, grew out of an earlier EAF project called New Art Systems which was developed in 1987. In the work that Fiona made for that project, an epigram from Apple Macintosh advertising could be found: "The human mind works by association. So why don't computers?". The work explored mechanics and modelling of human memory, how experience is associated to an object or a space. "Subject to Change" represents a considerable expansion on this. Drawing on the ideas of Renaissance memory systems, as famously developed by Giordano Bruno, Hall presents us with a journey through time and space, with texts that allude to, but never illustrate, the meanings generated by the conjunctions of imageries. In Bruno, one placed objects in a fictive space which was then mentally reviewed or travelled through whenever recall was required. The space could be an actual house but its construction was mental. To both Hall and Bruno, the act of movement and travel is essential to the generation of memory and meaning: Hall combining the personal and social, the objective and subjective, in a rich poetry of allusion. "Subject to Change" is a sumptuous, multi-layered artist project. 64pp: 46pp duotone images; RRP $24.95. Reviewed: Canberra Times 23.10.95; Adelaide Review Jan 1996; Broadsheet Vol 25 No 1; Art Monthly Australia March 1996.

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