today was all about creative
thinking at Kings with excellent science (medical) people and artists working
on developing the 3D synthetic teaching module. it really is such a fantastic
pleasure to be in the room with thinking people surrounded by gloriously
splendid stuff such as ape skeletons and octopus - if only I could document the
vast shelves of body parts to show!
managed to see Everything at
once - the Lisson show at 180 Strand - a mixed bag but there are some gems - we
obviously love most if not all of the Lisson artists, the gallery has been a
go-to space since I was a student. so we have Cory Arcangel, Lawrence Weiner
and Dan Graham. Anish Kapoor pulls off a beautiful illusion of space, Rodney
Grapham's film Vexation Island is just very oddly bizarrely darkly funny but
highlights are Ryoji Ikeda - the room is just digitally alive, Susan Hiller's
hypnotic room of TV's and then there is the tightly edited film by Arthur Jafa
on the roof, the experience of which is itself a gem - the view is
eclectic.
I then found myself in the
middle of the incident at Covent Garden - very strange - I turned around to see
a black cab travelling around road works colliding with a white van which hits a pedestrian and crosses the road and
ploughs into more people on pavement, sort of within more road works. so it's
all fairly calm and people are tending to those knocked over until a film unit with
lights starts filming then people watch that and a lot of police arrive and
shouting then more police then more arrive running now police cars and a lot of
sirens then you appear to be surrounded by police as people sort of get on with
getting home or going out the area around the crash is cordoned off and then
the anti-terrorist police arrive then the helicopter then the cordon gets wider
lots more shouting and which point I decide to cycle off. any other time it
would of passed off as an accident and we would of gone on about our business but I guess we live in 'other' times.
