When was the last time you saw a piece of art that you could have a decent lie down to?
I know exactly when it was in my case: the Spring of 2004, when Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project was coming to the end of its six-month installation in the Turbine Hall of London's Tate Modern. A combination of a mirrored ceiling, a faint mist in the air and a bloody enormous lighting rig came together to generate the illusion of a gigantic sun glowing away at one end of the hall. Faced with something of that magnitude, people reacted in the only way they could: lying on the floor and soaking it up (with the odd group of pranksters rearranging themselves or their belongings to spell out messages in the ceiling mirror).
David Byrne's Playing The Building, showing at the Roundhouse until August 31st 2009, may not be on the same gargantuan scale: but if you're not directly at the centre of it, I suspect that lying down may be the second best way of experiencing it.
Originally posted on The Unpleasant Lair Of Spank The Monkey 23/12/2001.
I keep feeling I should be adding some sort of progress updates to the Art pieces like I have with all the rest, but I can never think of anything to say. Sorry.
Originally posted on The Unpleasant Lair Of Spank The Monkey 18/09/2000.
What, you want an update? It's still going, that's probably all the update you really need. Although the layout's obviously changed quite a bit over the last eight years.
Originally posted on The Unpleasant Lair Of Spank The Monkey 23/12/2001.
Originally posted on The Unpleasant Lair Of Spank The Monkey 18/09/2000.
Originally posted on The Unpleasant Lair Of Spank The Monkey 29/01/2000.
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