‘london’
Treatment Room
Richard Hamilton: Treatment Room (1983-84). Modern Moral Matters, Serpentine Gallery.
Split Britches: The Lost Lounge
(Split Britches: The Lost Lounge, Queen Mary University, marts 2010)
“I walked down the Bowery and turned right on Bond Street the other day, and for a minute I thought, Oh my God, I don’t know where I am! I just didn’t recognize it. And so one of the themes that we’re working on is how memory is tied up with landscape, and what happens when you lose your landscape—how identity is tied into place and how it feels like we’re losing part of our identity by losing those places.”
Hanging out in Islington
Fyren her var ikke nogen dukke, men en levende mand, og han blev hængende til langt ud på aftenen. I bidende kulde.
Komplekset i Islington i Nord-London hedder The Market Estate, og lige om lidt er det jævnet med jorden. I gamle dage hed stedet The Copenhagen Fields, og i lang tid var det et kvægmarked, hvorfra tårnet endnu står tilbage.
Bare fyrre år tog det at slide bygningen ned. Som en sidste hilsen brugte en række kunstnere lejlighederne og området som ramme om installationer, udstillinger og performances på en en-dages-udstiling i lørdags.
Amerikanske Mary Coble og Blithe Riley tilbragte 18 dage i huset, dør om dør med de sidste udflyttere, og viste et preview på to virkelig fine flerkanalsvideoer, de nåede at få optaget: Den mest omfattende af dem var en Sisyfos-lignende flytning-fra-helvede, hvor alskens møbler, badevægte og gamle dukkehuse (fundet i kældrene under blokkene) med møje og besvær bliver slæbt op i huset – blot for at blive kastet ud over altanen. Moving in – moving out. Se mere på deres projektblog.
10 regler for forfattere
“My main rule is to say no to things like this, which tempt me away from my proper work” lyder Philip Pullmans svar på The Guardians enquete, 10 rules for writers. Her er ti håndplukkede, i nummerorden:
“1 Write.” (Neil Gaiman)
“2 Don’t have children.” (Richard Ford)
“3 Stay in your mental pyjamas all day.” (Colm Tóibin)
“4 If nobody will put your play on, put it on yourself.” (David Hare)
“5 Remember there is no such thing as nonsense.” (Andrew Motion)
“6 Try to be accurate about stuff.” (Anne Enright)
“7 Do, occasionally, give in to temptation. Wash the kitchen floor, hang out the washing. It’s research.” (Roddy Doyle)
“8 It’s doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.” (Jonathan Franzen)
“9 No going to London.” (Colm Tóibin)
“10 You have to love before you can be relentless.” (Jonathan Franzen)
Sharon Lockhardt: Goshogaoka
Sharon Lockhardt: Goshogaoka (Whitechapel Gallery), filmstill
Sharon Lockhardt: Goshogaoka Girls Basketball Team (1997), fotografier
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010
Zoe Leonard, Century Photo Centre, 200/2006 from the Analogue Portfolio, 1998-2009
Donovan Wylie, Deconstruction of the Maze prison. Northern Ireland. 2009
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010, The Photographer’s Gallery
Claude Cahun: Keepsake
Identity: Eight rooms, nine lives. Welcome Collection
Faits divers
“The Duke of Edinburgh showed his environmentally friendly side by clearing some rubbish at Sandringham. Prince Philip spotted a coffee cup on the ground near a crowd gathered outside Sandringham Church, where he and the Queen were attending morning service yesterday. Rather than pointing out the litter to aides or ignoring it, the 88-year-old Duke ducked under the cordon, bent down and picked it up himself.”
(Evening Standard)
Pure Beauty + Noise
Pure Beauty (1966-68). John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, Tate Modern
Noise (1963). Ed Ruscha – Fifty Years of Painting, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre
