W arrive Saturday morning safe and sound and we had breakfast at The Villandry and set out on our day along with N. We took the tube to my favorite market – Borough Market at London Bridge. Bought some gorgeous fruit and had my favorite falafel. The queue (can't say line here) for the falafel guy is always long but it moves fast and of course after your first bite it is totally worth it. We went to the Tate Modern and I was very happy to see one of my favorite video installations – Meat Joy – was there. I seriously don’t know why I like it so much – it’s quite disturbing but pretty funny. The context of it being created in 1964 and so…well, judge for yourself as I was happy to find it on YouTube.
I was a little disappointed some of the other pieces I enjoyed so much weren’t there as they rotate their collection pretty frequently. By the way, those of you in NY should go to MoMA and check out the current Dali and Film exhibit and Quarta-Feira de Cinzas/Epilogue – a video installation. Last year when I was at the Tate Modern I really loved seeing these and strongly recommend a visit.
However, a few that stuck out were Susan Hiller’s “Psi Girls” and Paul McCarthy’s “Projection Room”. The article below describes the “Psi Girls” piece better than I could ever hope to and the McCarthy piece….well, he is an interesting fella. It was a video installation on multiple screens – one image was him in a monkey mask, naked, jumping up and down, the other was him in a filthy tub – naked. But I have to tell you, it was pretty fascinating, I was glued to the screen for a bit, kind of grossed out but appreciated the creativity.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_12_89/ai_80747850
My other favorite piece was called “Inflammatory Essays: by Jenny Holzer. Basically, on one side of the wall in a gallery, there are all of these perfect squares in varying colors. Each square has a different essay, I believe there were about 8 different essays, but it was hard to stay and read all of them. I recommend checking it out and it's easy to read each of the essays from the Tate Modern’s website:
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1307&page=1
"The 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 ‘ecstasy, fantastic things’. Each essay has exactly 100 words in twenty lines and Holzer uses this rigid format to explore a range of extreme ideas. She questions the viewer’s response by setting fanatical statements against the certainties of common opinion. The Essays were fly posted across NYC. "
After N left, we wound down our day and went and had dinner at one of my favorite places, Rasa Sumudra. Indian food in London is so delicious and I wish I could clone Rasa and bring it to Chicago. We had a superb feast and then headed over to the Charlotte Hotel for a nightcap. I was very impressed that W was able to stay up until midnight.
I was a little disappointed some of the other pieces I enjoyed so much weren’t there as they rotate their collection pretty frequently. By the way, those of you in NY should go to MoMA and check out the current Dali and Film exhibit and Quarta-Feira de Cinzas/Epilogue – a video installation. Last year when I was at the Tate Modern I really loved seeing these and strongly recommend a visit.
However, a few that stuck out were Susan Hiller’s “Psi Girls” and Paul McCarthy’s “Projection Room”. The article below describes the “Psi Girls” piece better than I could ever hope to and the McCarthy piece….well, he is an interesting fella. It was a video installation on multiple screens – one image was him in a monkey mask, naked, jumping up and down, the other was him in a filthy tub – naked. But I have to tell you, it was pretty fascinating, I was glued to the screen for a bit, kind of grossed out but appreciated the creativity.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_12_89/ai_80747850
My other favorite piece was called “Inflammatory Essays: by Jenny Holzer. Basically, on one side of the wall in a gallery, there are all of these perfect squares in varying colors. Each square has a different essay, I believe there were about 8 different essays, but it was hard to stay and read all of them. I recommend checking it out and it's easy to read each of the essays from the Tate Modern’s website:
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1307&page=1
"The 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 ‘ecstasy, fantastic things’. Each essay has exactly 100 words in twenty lines and Holzer uses this rigid format to explore a range of extreme ideas. She questions the viewer’s response by setting fanatical statements against the certainties of common opinion. The Essays were fly posted across NYC. "
After N left, we wound down our day and went and had dinner at one of my favorite places, Rasa Sumudra. Indian food in London is so delicious and I wish I could clone Rasa and bring it to Chicago. We had a superb feast and then headed over to the Charlotte Hotel for a nightcap. I was very impressed that W was able to stay up until midnight.
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