WALTER HAYN, JANINE HOLLOWAY, GEORGE HOLLOWAY & SARAH

Act

February 18, 1994

 

This was a group installation by Walter Hayn, Janine Holloway and George Holloway (who would later take over the foundry at Technikon from Etienne De Kock.) All three had been students at the Technikon in the late 80s. (“Sarah” refers to the Holloways’ child)
In this collaborative installation, the three artists hung paintings, drawings, sculptures and found objects, which included a pair of jeans, ‘here and there’ from floor to ceiling. The divergent works on the walls were unified in some sense formally by the artists’ common decision to coat the floor with a layer of white salt. As gallery visitors viewed the works, their footprints made marks leaving the black traces of the floor beneath. The pattern created was a record of where each viewer had ‘traveled’ through the exhibition.

Janine Holloway preparing for 'ACT' 1994.

ACT during the opening, showing the "salt floor", 1994.Also in the image Paterson has Moonlight in some sort of 'grip'.