turn V is an easy-to-install, white shelf with 9 white cubes, and a set of 9 hard-covered, white books. Each cube is hand-embossed with 6 numbers:
1st cube's numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
2nd cube: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
3rd cube: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
4th cube: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
5th cube: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 1
6th cube: 6, 7, 8, 9, 1, 2
7th cube: 7, 8, 9, 1, 2, 3
8th cube: 8, 9, 1, 2, 3, 4
9th cube: 9, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
After completing her 18-year interactive-installation project in Maine's mills, one of Amy Stacey Curtis's new projects has been developing permanent, interactive installations for organizations, businesses, and homes, in partnership with Krakow Witkin Gallery. Her intention to sell each concept only once, Curtis has been presenting some of these ideas temporarily in museums and other installation-friendly venues.
For about a year, She has been thinking about a single, interactive installation with interconnected parts, each, part of an editioned participatory work to be installed and activated in simultaneous, collective space with collective participants. turn V is the result, now, also inspired by Kathe Kollwitz who connected her patrons during difficult times by producing powerful, accessible/low-cost, editioned prints. She wanted to provide a work to unify us in a long-term way while continuing her exploration of how we are part of an all.
There are 10,077,696, unique, 9-digit numbers which can be generated from turn V's 9 cubes. Curtis worked with a computer programmer to help her generate a list of 36,157, unique, 9-digit numbers, each drawn randomly from the 10,077,696 possibilities, one 9-digit number for each remaining day of a specific 99-year span (2021-2119) including its 23 leap year days.*
To ensure participants can turn all 9 cubes every day, whenever the program listed a next 9-digit number which had 1 or more same-positioned digits identical to the previous 9-digit number, this next 9-digit number was randomly displaced back into the future possibilities. For example, 2 successive days' 9-digit numbers can never be: "146692883" then "133419332" because each of the 9 cubes in its slot must turn (the "1" in the 2nd 9-digit number of this example must be a 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6).
*Leap year occurs every 4 years except the leap year we skip every 100 years unless divisible by 400. The year 2000 was a leap year, but 2100 is not."
