London Notes 2

[imomus]

Super-brief, because I'm running around.

Saw the Dominique Gonzales-Foerster installation in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. It evokes -- with witty, overblown references to previous installations there -- some kind of disaster in London in 2058. There's also a blitz feel to it -- bunk beds in tube stations, film of WW2 bomb ruins. It feels very topical at a time when the money crisis bestrides the city like Godzilla.

The lecture at the AA went well, and I feel this is just the beginning of my association with this association.

Today I saw the Cold War design show at the V and A -- mostly familiar ground -- and the new Saatchi Gallery (a good space, demilitarizing Chelsea and opening up the King's Road, just a stone's throw from where I used to live). But why must Chinese art (as selected by Saatchi) look like microwaved Pop?

Now I'm at Cafe Oto meeting Stef, who did the Joemus sleeve.

Frieze Art Fair party later -- will it feel like the party on the Titanic?

Comments

Emilie the Great...?

[(Anonymous)]

Momus,

a long time ago you wrote about a nice looking
musician called "Emilie the Great" or something
like that. Now I can´t find the text you wrote
about her. Could you please check out what
date/year it was?

Thanks! /Gustaf, Stockholm

Re: Emilie the Great...?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not Momus, but I'm pretty sure you mean this one: http://imomus.livejournal.com/355096.html

Do you, in some sort of "exchange", have any tips or recommendation on where to go to and what to do in Stockholm? I'll be there for a few days in late november and have zero plans so far!

-r

Re: Emilie the Great...?

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks r!

Don´t know what you´re looking for but here are some suggestions:
For music - Debaser Slussen/Medis, art - Modern Museum, contempory
art - Magasin 3, Bonniers Konsthall or art galleries around Vanadisplan
in Vasastan, nice walks - Djurgården.

/G

Re: Emilie the Great...?

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks, Gustaf! Great recommendations, I will try to visit those places.

-r

Re: Emilie the Great...?

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

Look for "Emmy The Great".

[(Anonymous)]

Tourist

[(Anonymous)]

The Cold War exhibition missed out a lot of things that would have helped sell their premise (50s Detroit cars with fins based on ballistic missiles, actual weaponry).

[(Anonymous)]

Was nice to finally see you in person at the AA yesterday. I couldn't stay long I'm afraid, but I did manage to get a seat at the back.

Wow, I need to go back to a gallery soon already. Last time I was at the Tate in the Turbine Hall, I think was when they had the Carsten Höller slides up...which were fun btw.

[kenickeh.livejournal.com]

This comment was from me btw...Forgetting to sign in.

[(Anonymous)]

It was great finally meeting you in person too; unfortunately, I was in too much of a rush to go any further than saying "hi." And thanks for a rather interesting lecture. As someone who is trying to optimise his own marginality, I found several common threads... (Incidentally, Kevin Kelly claims to have determined the break-even point for a creator along the long tail: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php )

-Orestes

[brokenjunior.livejournal.com]

and? and??
are we sinking yet?

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for the lecture.
Made me, and everyone I was with very happy.

Oh man, oh man !

[(Anonymous)]

I'm glad u'r digging up Click Opera : please, this has been biting my homunculous for quite some time - what is the name of the french essayist that deals in deterministic logic ? Alain something .... You mentioned a book of his only now being edited in the USA, available quite some time ago here in Europe.
Keep an eye out for the London Film festival, ongoing until the 30th !!

Alex P.

Re: Oh man, oh man !

[(Anonymous)]

Badiou? Or was it Erykah Badou?

Re: Oh man, oh man !

[(Anonymous)]

spot on! , thanks

Alex

(alter)Post(re)Modern(ism)

[(Anonymous)]

I enjoyed the talk. Everyone around me left early but i didn't sense it was due to the talk (or me).

It seemed a bit like a live Click Opera conversion/update at times (which having been without home internet of late i didn't mind at all)!

I wonder if the theme relates at all to Robert Hughes recent televisual rumblings (which having read about i haven't actually seen), i don't recall their being mentioned but apparently are akin to the speech by Maxwell Davies.

I did note that as a talk suggesting the demise of postmodernism it suggested itself (perhaps misleadingly) as an exercise in that very phenomenon. Maybe this only illustrates the extent to which cultural postmodernism -including populist reactionary strands- is confused, elided or caught up with the very technology and techniques of the postmodern situation/contemporary modernity/modernization.

Thus the importance of tracing and untangling the various strands of 'postmodernism' and the postmodern, which as a vague, expansive word (like 'Art' or 'God') can be used to signify almost anything.