November 01, 2002 - November 02, 2002
One of the revelations of show is the discovery that the Anglo Saxon noun "hide" is
associated with an apportionment of land. In the linguistic history, therefore, a brutal set of
equivalences is sedimented: the carrying capacity of the land needed to feed a flock stands in a
relationship of mathematical equivalence to the product, the amount of wool clip. This highly
instrumental form of equivalence is examined in the main installation: the outlines of the farm
boundaries are clipped from the fleece, making up an exact equivalence in the encofflning
shape which then contains the product, as though the wool had a willingness of its own and
fell neatly into the red receptacle. ( David Bunn, opening speech , 2000)