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3 Boys In A Rub-Dub-Tub 
Art Show, 10-20th Nov, 1983
Alky, Wadie and Pete

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This was a 3 man group show that I pulled together with two artist friends, Doug Wade and Peter McAlpine. They both showed paintings. I showed paintings, aquariums and held a performance that involved the 3 of us. This performance involved a kids blow up pool with a garden trellis backdrop. We dressed in our swim wear and hung a red light which was the only light source during the short performance. This piece was a permutation of a piece I designed for a public art show in Maitland, a small country town in the Hunter Valley of NSW a few years before while I was still an art student. 

As the event began, all light were turned off and loud wild music played. A small red bulb dangled nearby as the only light source. The other 2 boys began to play in the pool, splashing and wading around, rather slowly, a little like the act without the pretense of acting. The motions were followed of the act but no attempt was made to become something other.

Meanwhile I began pinning large sheets of unexposed photographic paper onto the trellis above the wading pool. I also filled 2 trays with the appropriate darkroom chemicals for developing and fixing photographic paper. Directly in front of the pool and backdrop I set up a camera on a tripod. I released the timer and joined the boys in the pool. As we awkwardly intertwined, the camera and flash went off. I removed the paper and put it through the correct trays and afater completing the develkopment of the images, I pinned them back onto the trellis. The lights went back on and the performance was complete. The image on the trellis was a sillouhette of the 3 boys. The black and white image had drips and smudges as well as the white shapes left unexposed by the shadow of the bodies in the flash of the camera. 


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