It’s great to be in London again, there is so much to see.
I spent last Thursday and Friday installing my work in the basement hallway on Wilson Road at Camberwell. It was great to finally meet Andy Stiff and some of my colleagues- Julian Jans, Ayhan Oensal and Brain Morris, as well as some of the full time MA students. After I got a longer white power cord and transformer for the small digital frame I put up- I think it looks great.
Yesterday I went to see Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet at the Barbican. It was interesting to see that much work focusing on environmental issues and the recreation of old ‘environmental art’ projects but it was also disconcerting to see that much green plant matter artificially lit and growing indoors. I enjoyed seeing Hans Haacke’s Grass Mound from the late 60s, and I liked Henrik Håkansson’s Fallen Forest from 2006, but despite an elaborate root watering system the leaves were dying.
I particularly liked Heather and Ivan Morrisson’s twin geodesic shingled domes outside on the terrace. It was a great shelter from a sudden rain storm.
