Slip Form

Solo Exhibition 

Location - Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne

Date - 1999

Slip Form takes its name from the movable timber form work constructed in order to cast vertical concrete structures such as columns and service cores. A slip form is then a constitutionally contingent and doubly transitional form, a mold which is itself mobile, it casts stable forms by moving on.

The work Slip Form is trebly transitional. Such is its provisional character that it could indeed be said to tremble. For Slip Form is itself the projective casting of the assembled and stacked non-forms of dis/appearance: waiting room 04, a 3D line drawing in timber of an interior geometry of a form which would mold or cast the stack of non-forms. However, as configured in the gallery, this transitional quality is quadrupled. Partly built or partly un-built, Slip Form is temporally and spatially ambiguous as all part-objects are. Indeed, alluding to those parts of itself that are yet to be or have been, such elusive or fugitive forms make us think of time and form as a movement of dis/appearance. This contingency and transience of form in the present is even further intensified by the location of Slip Form in a gallery called ‘Spare Room’.

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