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keeping up
If you Google Huang Yong Ping + Bat Project, you’ll find news on Huang’s attempt to build and show a replica plane from a historical event, along with the news reports of the 2001 event itself. Funnily enough, you’ll also get the same data when you visit Huang’s work at the Nottingham Contemporary Gallery. It’s… (read more)
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)
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)
collecting the country
If the British Art Show 7 is meant to describe the British art sensibility over the past five years, the message is clear: British-ness is about collecting many things, and sorting the pile into some sort of organisation: coherent or not. Zig zagging through the UK, BAS 7 woke up from its five-year slumber to… (read more)