A Grey Area: Boxing & Memory
plasticene on astroturf, 16x16 feet, 1995
erosion - move over the grey area
Jane Mulfinger & Graham Budgett - a commission for the inIVA touring exhibition BOXER curated by John Gill - featured on BBC National Television in The Art Marathon.
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PROPOSAL:
A
boxing ring-sized square of grey Plasticine, a uniform 1.5
inches thick, is strategically placed as 'paving' over which visitors
to the exhibition may freely pass. Almost the entire surface of the
semi-soft material is imprinted with the
names of the champions of every weight in the recorded history
of boxing. The appearance of this slab is reminiscent of memorials
set in
stone, or perhaps of reductive Modernist artworks, but this edifice
will gradually be eroded by its public as they leave traces of their
own fleeting
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