Sitting down in the Tate

[juliet]

On Friday evening whilst doing ART SCIENCE at the Tate (which was much fun), I discovered that they have stools available (possibly from the visitor information place on level 3) which you can take round with you & use to sit down when you need to! This is V Useful Information especially if, like me, you have to give up on the Art after about an hr as a rule because your feet hurt.

ION: currently in the Tate there is an absolutely fantastic video piece called Video Quartet, by Christian Marclay. Four screens, each showing a series of clips (all only a handful of seconds long) from a variety of Hollywood films; put together so that the soundtrack (& the visual impact) of all 4 work together to create something else. Very much worth a visit; I was really, really impressed.

My weekend involved Art Science as mentioned above; lots of watching of Firefly at nou's; lots of (largely unsuccessful) bike fettling (but I did get my lovely lovely new Solidlights on! belated Xmas present from the splendid uon, & VERY BRIGHT AND SHINY INDEED); a party at Silk's in Battersea; and PIE.

I am now at work. Boo to werk.

Comments

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

That Marclay piece is totally brill, esp the last five minutes or so.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I am selfishly glad that somebody else had a weekend of unsuccessul fettling. I couldn't get my replacement scooter mirrors on for the life of me and was reduced almost to tears by how cold my fingers were and my crap ineptitude. Hey ho.

[juliet]

Getting the new lights on was dead easy; making the cyclecomputer work after that was not so, & was VERY FRUSTRATING INDEED :-( A visit to B&Q for more cable ties is in my future.

(I didn't even get started on the new top brake levers, which are scaring me greatly)

[factherd.livejournal.com]

The Christian Marclay thing is indeed splendid; the other weekend I made a specific trip to see it from beginning to end. Mumble video art in gallery context mumble.

Artwork that shows skill and craft in composition manages to engage and entertain. What were the chances?

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

BIKE LIGHT RAVE! :D

[juliet]

We need to set up a bike stand to make the dynamo thing happen!

[webcowgirl.livejournal.com]

What is Art Science? Enquiring minds want to know ...

[juliet]

marnameow made questionnaires & took us round a handful of paintings & got us to mark them according to how much they made us feel various emotions, & also the Daily Mail "My toddler could've" scale, & Is It Art?, & free comments on the back. It was fun :-)

[webcowgirl.livejournal.com]

Dang, that sounds great!

[flick.livejournal.com]

I love that video thingie! It's fab. Nearly as good as the Boxes Of Stuff, which is my current favourite Tate Thing.

[juliet]

Boxes of Stuff?

[flick.livejournal.com]

There's a little room with boxes of stuff in rows on one wall: it's inspired by the Freud museum, iirc. Very cool. Particularly the devotional light bulbs.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks for that, we may be going there this w/e so I shall keep the stool thing in mind.