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Curator of Duration
A walking stick on 75 mile beach may aid a traveller more by making marks in the sand than by helping his/her balance. On a beach where one can see neither the beginning nor the end and the two edges that bind it are quite uniform, measuring, anticipating, estimating time and distances becomes problematic. A walking stick may then become a landmark for orientation when placed in the sand or can make tracks In front of the traveller as she walks; a series of small, finite measurements to reassure the traveller that the land is passing under his/her feet. – Caroline Stalker
In February, Entrepot, the student group which rents and administrates 40 Charlotte Street, organised a Royal Australian Institute of Architecture funded workshop on Fraser Island. The purpose of the field trip was to explore architectural ideas outside the urban environment.
Fraser Island with vast tracts of highly unusual and unspoiled natural environment was ideal as a place for discussing ways of dismantling architectural presuppositions formed by mainstream city/urban demands.
Participant/organisers Caroline Stalker, John McMin, Andrew Gutteridge, Rhonan O'Brien, Justin O'Neill, Timothy Hill, and Mark Thompson conceived some systems for exploring the environment by asking the participants to become "curators" of various aspects of the island's landscape.
The project was divided into three stages: prior discussion, in which advice and comments were given by John MacArthur, Jeffrey Minson, and John Stafford; the trip itself, where observations were made; and workshops after the trip, which involved making the physical objects on show at Entrepot in March 1987.
In the post-workshop exhibition, Fiona Winzar's photographs (prints by Peter Kent) explored the subtleties of her tasks as curator of