Showing posts with label raven row. Show all posts
Showing posts with label raven row. Show all posts

Tuesday, 17 October 2023

lookingandreadingtheexquisite


I think that I’m starting to get the hang of this 3D printing! Onto London for a very old friends significant birthday – music, talking, wine and people I haven’t seen in a while but are always there….lovely – I even got to DJ a little – well I played records one after another…..While in London I went to see the show at Raven Row - Aye by Lutz Bacher. It is exquisite, truly moving. The work and shows at Raven Row are always amazing but I think this is one where the artwork has become part of the space and vice versa. Opening a closed door becomes the work. Enabling the sounds to drift in and out, doors banging, footsteps and people talking via with the sound pieces. #mostexcellent. I’m in the middle of reading Richard Wingate’s-  The Story of the Brain in 10½ Cells. https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-story-of-the-brain-in-101-2-cells/richard-wingate/9781788162968 It’s a joyous accessible read about some important stuff! – I started to make notes and I found myself almost transcribing the whole book – so I stopped – some key notes so far though include….
A roadmap to an answer of a riddle - 2D drawing of a blurred 3D object - The idea of style in medical drawings - To draw is to know - Great speculation = the use of photographic solution in staining cells might enable us to see that the brain might contain frozen still images - Purkinje cell array converts time into space - Our construction of a perceptual world suddenly appeared to be a tremendous piece of theatre, engineered by our brains, to convince us that sensations are complete and reliable while concealing a script of hasty translations and omissions - The sound/language of brain cells. So compellingly enjoyable. onto screens – Mission Impossible was very funny with incredible stunts, well real things filmed! Equalizer 3 has another eclectic array of ways to effectively kill people speedily. I’m in the middle of season 3 of The Morning Show, the dark venal activity depicted is skin crawling, although not as much as Partygate – the program drips with undeserved privilege, the two worlds it presents are so disturbingly contrasting and yet nothing has changed – how about that.

Wednesday, 26 November 2014

oldschoolinformation

Managed to see the show at Raven Row - http://www.ravenrow.org/current/ – most excellent – looking at the work of KP Brehmer who found new ways to visualise global capitalism which are of increasing relevance today – an agent of social and political change the show explores ways of communicating data in indirect ways rather than an ‘information is beautiful’ way. As ever the space is the star and the incredibly detailed and professionally produced printed matter. Rise of the planet of the apes – is just that with guns and apes on horseback – it all felt a little unnecessary.

Tuesday, 2 April 2013

showdisplaythegoodandthebad


A couple of days in London to see in the beginning was the end, an immersive site specific theatre piece. Held in abandoned spaces under Somerset House the work was a labyrinthine broken narrative exploring exploration, science, invention and global trade in scientific ideas, very good with some moments of darkness interspersed with naked wit.
Some visual recommendations – Schwitters at the Tate was meaningful and often beautiful http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/schwitters-britain but not Lichtenstein which was just very bad. .... some of the worst sculptures I have ever seen. The real joy is the Merce Cunningham the dance projection in the oil tanks http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tanks-tate-modern/eventseries/tanks-art-action. Běla Kolářová  at Raven Row was superb – http://www.ravenrow.org/current/bela_kolarova/ intricate collections of small objects and wonderful photographs that show collections of objects - the whole display is delicate and thoughtful. Bernadette Corporation at the ICA presented an interesting way of doing things. An overview of how a group of people got together, using fashion as a model along with corporate language to disseminate ideas, strangely it felt like punk would of looked like if it had of started in the 90s. http://www.ica.org.uk/?lid=35536  An odd but vast number of eccentric puppets at the curve gallery by Geoffrey Farmer: The Surgeon and the Photographer http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=14389. Finally a 360 projection by Charles Atlas at the Bloomberg space that dances with a wonderful rhythm within the space whilst meditating on the power and abject beauty of global capitalism http://www.bloombergspace.com/artists/current/charles-atlas-2/