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Air Pressure ,
Artspace, Sydney, 1997.

An objective of this installation was to implicate the architectural fabric of the exhibition space within the work. Artspace is characterised by its former identity as a naval ordnance building, featuring early twentieth century warehouse details such as hardwood structural pillars, low ceilings and exposed joists. This installation used seventy five industrial building supports erected to form a thicket of vertical struts between ceiling and floor, radiating concentrically from an imaginary centre positioned beyond the gallery wall. A mould used in the production of satellite dishes was positioned against the outwardly fanning props. A short wave radio tuned to the sibilance between stations provided the installation soundscape.

One of the concerns of this work was to expand Adorno's contention that "...obliteration...by information...is another expression for the withering of experience...as if the reified plaster-cast of events takes the place of events themselves."