So
a day at Kings - working on synthetic anatomy - on the way using my
time on the train to work on the software to construct a number of gifs and
creating more 3D pieces that explore the weave and knit aspect of the process.
I am sure 3D printing is a textile activity. It was the table displays, one of
the culminations of the project. fascinating - in the arts we spend hours
debating Learning Outcomes - agreeing on their meaning and talking about
transparency. It is almost as if a fear has gripped arts education. The science
world had none of that fear and was full of certainty. There was some
extraordinary work on display - some of it worthy of gallery space and others
would be interesting within a design context. But all were amazing in what they
had taken of board in terms of visual communication and storytelling -
excellent.
Stayed
on to go to see sylvia palacios whitman at a late Tate event - I will not be
going again. So controlling, so managed, so badly staged. This was the tragedy
and then the work itself .......just dull, verging on pompus and self
congratulatory although its
retrospective nature might of let it off these crimes if it wasn't for the new
work, a travesty. And I paid £16.00 to sit on the floor behind a pillar! more
fool me. Next day was a breath of fresh air - taking in a number of galleries that
were more interested in art than controlling the audience - Arcadia Missa and
Gossamer Fog had dynamic small scale pieces, The South London Gallery had
free.yard curating a show upstairs and downstairs an extraordinary hyper
produced exhibition by Magali Reus. The production values of the objects gave
it a sheen of otherworldlyness. The overall experience was one of finding
clues, it reminded me of the work of Mathew Barney. Finally the highlight was
the curated exhibition by isthisit at arebyte on London City Island http://www.isthisitisthisit.com/ .
It is an extraordinary show of highly considered work, I think Tate membership
has to go when the more interesting work is somewhere else.
