So THATS how they grow!Bridget Jones' House. How do you rotate these photos?!
Endless trays of turkish delight. For mum:
My un-educatedly favourite pieces from the Tate modern:
Candy? Actually soap:
Turn head to left side: It's shoes going down a staircase. Pretty photos:
Hanging gold utensils. The amount of work that must have gone into this was incredible. And. It looks pretty. Also reminiscent of a particular abfab episode:
Fantasia:
It's a bit cliche, but I could sit in front of Monet's waterlilies for a whole day just to look at the colours. And I plan to. Maybe on Wednesday:
A barn!:
Stickies:
This was a video piece which involved women playing around in paint for art. 6o's and joyful looking. I love "influential celebration of flesh as material...an erotic right". The name was an added bonus:
Forgive me for the following favourites, the detail is probably only interesting to myself. But I've put it here anyway.
Susan Hiller, psi girls (5 screen video projection) - "cultural association between female adolescence and altered states of consciousness." A connection being made between female adolescence and magic of some type appeals to me. The video also featured Neve Campbell. I like Neve.
Victer Grippo, tables of work and reflection:
Something to do with the cultural role that tables take on. I think tables are important. A nice desk. It's all I want.
Sophie Calle - The Hotel. This french writer/artist/installation artist/etc worked as a chambermaid in a hotel, took photos and stole a pair of shoes. There are pictures of the rooms with daily commentary as to how the room was left. There was one room in Venice in which the resident had written on scrap paper "cemetery - fantastic". I have to agree - A and I visited the cemetery in Paris and it was my favourite day of the trip.
Jenny Holzer, Inflammatory essays;
The whole wall was covered in colourful paper with short sentences of wisdom written upon them. Inspiring. The Tate says:
"The Inflammatory Essays present a range of provocative statements which were inspired by the texts of political theorists, religious fanatics and impassioned 'folk' literature. Since childhood, Holzer has been interested in 'rapturous writing' and wanted to write 'ecstatic, fantastic things."
Yes.
And if you feel like a treasure hunt;
Andre Ketesz, Rooftops.
Koo Jeong A (glossy photos of ivy coloured houses)
Bill Brandt, Brighton
My not so favourites. Disturbing images ahead:
On Viennese Actionism, the Tate says:
"The Vienna Actionists were influenced by international developments in painting in the 1950s and by artists such as Jackson Pollock. Taking painting as their starting point, they extended their gestural, material and often violent outpourings beyond the canvas and into a range of highly provocative performances or bodily actions."
On Viennese Actionism, Kate says:
Images of mutilation and castration next to the red paint splattered canvas was surprisingly extraordinarily disturbing.
My least favourite at the Tate, but which has stayed in my mind nevertheless:
There was a film, involving a man which put 2 girls 1 cup to shame. Kermit would not be pleased (youtube kermit 2 girls. Do NOT youtube 2 girls 1 cup. DO NOT! I mean it mum).
