CAST Gallery

HANGBANG (nightshift) is a new installation made up of John Vella’s artworks not currently in public or private collections.  Hundreds of diverse objects - the artist’s archive - will be stored, numbered and displayed around the gallery periphery as a massive assemblage. The daily on-site and online business of the institution - office staff, technologies and visitors - will be recorded and employed to select specific works for a nightly interference/vention. Viewed live from 9pm-5am via a window punched into the gallery external wall, this regular nocturnal operation will translate a dormant archive of objects into a volatile, vital and transient network of interactions.