A Facility for the Containment and Channeling of Undesirable Elements

This installation is the birthplace of Ping Chong's performance work, Undesirable Elements. Metaphorically the work is a quarantine space. The viewer enters the main gallery of Artist Space and is immediately restricted to a cat walk above the floor which is completely covered with white rock salt. It also contains huge pools of unidentified liquids, some black, others yellow. It suggests a toxic environment. It suggests an industrial, man-made environment denuded of nature. There is a low industrial hum that permeates the space. It is a space of denial, of death. Once again, nature is banished among other things. The viewer is left to ponder what are Undesirable Elements? What is dangerous?