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Archive for January 2011
flux this
The old Fluxus art movement has been re-fluxed. A modern day British artist has seized the 1960′s sense of improvisation, along with the movement’s ease with technology, all from the angle of the 21st century. After visiting Nam June Paik’s show at Tate Liverpool, I put two and two together and thought of a contemporary… (read more)
statements questioned
Is it possibly to make a bicycle, more “bicycle-y”. Or an elevator lift more suffocating than it already is? Or a tyre that is more, well, tyre-ing? Gabriel Orozco focuses firmly on what a thing does, and then makes it more like itself; usually, with more of it. He finds a thing’s essence, then inflates,… (read more)
pyramid scheme
Another reminder at the British Art Show that our current, western culture is one of collecting random, possibly needless, objects, is Keith Wilson’s “Ziggurat” which itself is one of many pieces touring the country throughout 2011. A ziggurat of ziggurats, if you like. I had to look up the word “ziggurat” in my iPhone dictionary,… (read more)