F-Utility

Centre for Land Use Interpretation
Utah, USA 
2008-10



F-Utility. 2008

An exhibition nowhere.

Asymmetic Protest

Located on the edge of Southbase- this documented protest using a nomadic structure - the Field utility Unit or FUtility, and was situated at a High Explosive Bomb assembly area, used to make one of two Nuclear bombs used by the USA in WW2.

The placards show equations used in war games, and military planning that address zero-sum scenarios are elements of this work that address the asymmeties of power. Undertaken whilst in residence; Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah 2008. Supported by CLUI and The Henry Moore Foundation.

Mobile aluminium structure with signage (Minimax - a decision rule used in artificial intelligence, decision theory, game theory, statistics, and philosophy for minimizing the possible loss for a worst case (maximum loss) scenario). Prints (Assymetrical nets. Inkjet on paper - 2011) 

A single page entry based on Smithson Minus Twelve was produced for the catalogue of Voids / Vides. A Retrospective of Empty Exhibitions, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2009.