Entries from Londonist tagged with 'installation'
November 24, 2008
Tucked away about 5 minutes from the dilapidated 70s mall charm of Elephant and Castle, past that partially boarded up estate at the west end of New Kent Road, and a pub which claims to be the 'only English owned pub left on Harper Road', you may be convinced you've slipped into some gritty Channel 4 drama, with huge queues outside a run down block surrounded by neo-brutalist council estates, when you arrive at......
Continue Reading "Last Chance To See: Seizure By Roger Hiorns"November 17, 2008
As promised, images from Under Scan in Trafalgar Square at the weekend. Go get you a mismatched shadow from this installation running till Sunday. Many thanks to Max Kimber for the photographs.......
Continue Reading "Under Scan, Trafalgar Square: In Pictures"November 14, 2008
Or, Dear Martin Creed: I didn’t really want to run in your exhibition anyway Been to see the sprinters at the Tate Britain yet? Whatever are you waiting for? Whilst you’ve been working, eating, sleeping, living – they’ve been running running running: some 310 km each, or 192 miles, or 7-plus marathons (that’s fifteen 86-meter sprints every half hour interval, times four intervals a shift, times three shifts a week, times 20 weeks). And......
Continue Reading "Last Chance To See: Work No. 850 @ Tate Britain"October 22, 2008
We were sent a curious bundle of sticks through the post, creating a mild Blair Witch-ish tremor upon the doormat last week... but then realised these plastic rods form a key to a very cool project at Tate Modern this coming Saturday and we are in fact going to be part of Malhas de Liberdade / Meshes of Freedom. Artist Cildo Meireles based the original network sculpture on a doodle he drew in 1976,......
Continue Reading "Meshes Of Freedom At Tate Modern"October 13, 2008
Those of you who are blind to the delights of the modern art world will be relieved to hear that the Tate Modern is thinking of you. Next time you are reluctantly dragged down to a blockbuster exhibition, you can ditch your date and have a kip in one of hundreds of beds set up in the Turbine Hall. Of course, their is more to the bunk beds than simply catering to the art-weary.......
Continue Reading "Art Sends Londoners to Sleep"October 7, 2008
Rivane Neuenschwander, 'Suspension Point', 2008, drilled holes, dust, installation view. Photo by Andy Keate Walking into Rivane Neuenschwander's Suspension Point, the South London Gallery's bright, spacious interior is obscured by gloom. Allowing your eyes to adjust to the murk, the reason becomes clear: a wooden mezzanine has been constructed at roughly the midway point of the gallery's height, covering the entire space, with the only illumination coming through a staircase that leads up to the......
Continue Reading "Review: Suspension Point, South London Gallery"September 8, 2008
Anything with the words "featuring Jedi Jugglers" fills us full of dread. Well, fills us with a mental image of middle class boys called Crispin or Nathan wearing combat trousers and flicking their dreadlocks around whilst earnestly juggling like soldiers going off to war in 1914. But this "illumination extravaganza", is in the crypt of St Pancras Church on Euston Road, which fact alone guaranteed our attendance at their public opening. Great pains were......
Continue Reading "Art Review: Illumini @ St Pancras Church Crypt"September 3, 2008
Street artist Slinkachu released four new tiny sculptures into the city to mark the launch of his new book this week and five intrepid hunters from the Londonist team set out to find them in a specially designed treasure hunt. In an afternoon's muggy and damp tramping around, we went from the COSH gallery where Slinkachu's work is on display into the West End, to South Bank and right the way over to Brick Lane.......
Continue Reading "Little People In The City"January 29, 2008
You might remember the plight of the wonderful Manor Garden Allotments from last year. The green fingered East Enders were eventually evicted and transplanted to a plot of land in Marsh Lane, Leyton after a spirited but unsuccessul fight. Now, however, the ghost of Manor Gardens has been transmuted into art with a reconstruction of the original "community shed" at its heart. Student artist, Thomas Pausz, has constructed the shed as part of his......
Continue Reading "Manor Garden Allotments: Gone But Not Forgotten"January 18, 2008
The Shunt Lounge garden shed, courtesy of the author Londoners can be a playful bunch, going on Flickr Photo Scavenger Hunts, playing Rubbish Games and doing pictures of our favourite landmarks. There's also a chance all next week to play houses and happy families at Home Sweet Home in the Shunt Vaults, an installation by collaborative arts company Subject to Change. Home Sweet Home is a small city made of cardboard, all neat streets and......
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