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Superflex : Flooded McDonald's

Superflex : Flooded McDonald's at the South London Gallery :::::::here::::::::

Pavel Büchler at the Max Wigram Gallery

I will write some thoughts about this work once i have some time to digest it.
but i recommend it more info :::::::here::::::::::

so i am just reading about Pavel Büchler. his biog starts with :
Pavel Büchler is an artist, lecturer and writer. Summing up his own practice as "making nothing happen", he is committed to the catalytic nature of art - its potential to draw attention to the obvious and reveal it as strange.

thats brilliant, making nothing happen.

what does not come across in the pictures is the sound and smell of this piece. The smell of old projectors is great, what is it, heated dust ? also the sound of many projector fans. I really like
this work . As the press release says : a technically simple but conceptually complex and evocative installation.
im not sure i like the word evocative but everything else is good.

so thank you to Emma Hart for suggesting this exhibition

Pavel Büchler at the Max Wigram Gallery

Pavel Büchler at the Max Wigram Gallery

Mark Leckey in a Long Tail World

LINK HERE

Last night i went with Emma Hart, Corinna Till and Dai Jenkins to this performance/lecture by turner prize winner Mark Leckey.

i had seen him deliver his "cinema in the round " talk at a Lux event that me and Emma had performed at. Cinema in the round was a was fascinating and expanded my mind, it was a much more straight forward piece than "Long Tail" at least in appearance, although the ideas where more complex.

Long tail took in the male world of the Internet and its ability to deliver everything to every one how ever niche their taste.

the language he employed was beyond my vocabulary which left me wondering if i had understood more of the words he used then maybe my experience would have been more profound .

the performance was littered with technical problems and the start time was delayed by 20 minutes. the computer slide show kept going back to the apple screen and the whole thing seemed to slightly unprepared.

the devices he used to illustrate his ideas where designed for laughs and big theatrical impact.
but some how came across as clunky.

at the end of the performance he went back stage but his radio mic was still on and we heard him say " that was terrible "

i didn't think it was terrible but i thought it was not the best thing he has done .
and i am not so interested in this idea about the Internet, or at least i understand it and find it not so intriguing

but not a bad way to spend a Saturday night.