Anyone still 'out there' who has time in London before 17 August, might
consider visiting the 'Serious Games' exhibition in the Barbican (some of
these pieces have also been shown up amongst our friends in the north, but
I don't have details).
Includes:
Diller+Scofidio: Indigestion 1995
- dine with a 'friend'
Bill Seaman: Passage Sets or One Pulls Pivots at the Tip of the Tongue 1995
- this is overtly poetic and deserves reading, although this is actually
quite dificult in the gallery setting, where 'everyone wants and deserves a
go' and the piece takes time to work out and through. I would like to
understand better how Seaman's work (incredible production values
underpinned by, I believe, Microsoft or similar) relates to 'serious
writing' in (especially) the States.
Harwood: Rehearsal of Memory 1995
- tough.
Jim Campbell: Halucination 1990
- burn up in your own video representation.
Toshio Iwai: Resonance of 4 1994
- musical piece:- like cooperatively programming a visually rich
player-piano, with enough structure built-in to make the results alway at
least pleasing to the ear. Go with a friend when it's quite and I guarantee
you, you'll have a gas.
Ann Whitehurst: NetEscape 1996
- as 'good' as its title. Maybe it's wonderful if you give it time, but I
hated the look of it and ran away.
Char Davies: Osmose 1994-95
- we! are! V!R! -- but seductive and embodied.
Ritsuko Taho: Zeromorphosis: Swans and Pigeons 1996
- and after all that, spring comes and the grass grows by itself (natural
abundance of the earth).
[downstairs bonus: Marc Riboud's excellent photographs of China with (?his
own) nauseatingly Orientalist captions]
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