A day of breathing in - after a positive meeting about the
forthcoming art trail in Norwich I got on a train and started the breathing by
wandering through Bond Street window shopping - as ever
Louis Vuitton is
a winner - gotta love the glorious excess. After a quick Guinness celebrating
what would have been my mum’s birthday - onto exhibitions. They included a
great VR experience at
Gazelli Art House, refracted bodies by
Matteo
Zamagni the real, imagined and the imagined real all crashed into each
other.
Sprueth Mangers has a new video by the extraordinary
Jon
Rafman - based on absurd Reddit posts you will be disturbed yet laugh out
loud.
Ian Cheng's Thousand Lives at
PQ was layered interactive
manga madness and a turtle. Got on an Uber boat from Blackfriars to North
Greenwich (which is a fantastic way to travel in London - not Venice but Canary
wharf was mad amazing)
Bob Bickell Knight's show Insert Coin at
Cable
Depot was an examination of the gamification of life read through loot
boxes in video games.
Meanwhile onto screens Missing looked at new ways to tell
stories - the multiple layered systems that hold and display information
mirrors and examines our endless multiple ways to engage with the world. Cocaine
Bear was just terrible.
