Sunday 5 June 2022

todayortomorrow

I have a flag in Saxmundham High Street – as part of celebrations artstation invited a few people to design and submit a design https://theartstation.uk/event/sax-flags/ …t a couple of interesting local show – Brian Dawn Chalkley at The Cut was a joy and a surprise https://thecut.org.uk/events/brian-dawn-chalkley/ The show at Snape as part of this years festival was good - Paul Benney, Laurence Edwards and Kiki Smith have some work dotted around the space. Laurence has a couple of very special new pieces that are really worth the trip to the space; a boat/fence/bodies hybrid piece and a small body trapped in a eel trap.Onto screens – Interceptor was what it says on the tin - So to Pistols - Danny Boyle is responsible for another travesty but for a different reason. Brexit was obviously his fault as his excellent direction of the Olympic ceremony convinced us to go through with the illusion of Brexit by creating a glorious fantastical fairy-tale Britain where we believed we were more important than we actually were and of course doing it all on our own without the support of others or underpinned by our dark history of slavery and colonialism ....at its best Pistols is punk panto when it's not unnecessarily dallying with art school knob twiddling video techniques, seemingly as a way of attempting to gain relevance.....oh well.