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waterwars : act 3 [two thousand gallons]

Between May 12th and May 17th 2002 Mike Brookes and Jill Greenhalgh constructed a large scale gallery installation work comprising three distinct sculptural actions:

[1] 'six hundred gallons at five feet over eighteen weeks' : in which a 5m x 5m room was filled wall to wall with identical metal buckets. The buckets are filled to the brim with water, precisely and equally spaced, and suspended from the ceiling by chain so that the water surface rests at 'eye level'. A space is accessible under the buckets, in the centre of which is placed a simple bed.

[2] 'six hundred gallons at two and a half feet over eighteen weeks' : in which an adjacent 5m x 5m room was filled wall to wall with identical metal buckets. The buckets are filled to the brim with water, precisely and equally spaced, and suspended from the ceiling by chain so that the water surface rests level with a table top which forms a small island in the centre of the room. The buckets bar entry beyond the doorway.

[3] 'eight hundred gallons at floor level over eighteen weeks' : in which a 5m x 7m area of floor is covered with identical metal buckets. The buckets are filled to the brim with water, precisely and equally spaced, and occupy a large rectangle emerging from one corner of a larger and adjacent room. In the opposite and facing corner is placed a chair.

Once installed, ambient sound works are introduced into all three rooms, and the works are allowed to change character, through water stagnation and evaporation, across the eighteen week period of their exhibition.

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