Michelle has been busy making a lovely hat & sash (amongst other things). I wouldn’t dare call her a tit-head though! I’ve seen quite a few good displays made from yoko’s ‘merchandise’ recently.
Monthly Archive for October, 2004
I don’t get angry but I was a bit p’d off yesterday afternoon to find the Novas building closed. It was scheduled to be the final day but it seems the organisers decided to finish a day early without bothering to tell the public or even the artists!
My daughter and son-in-law had travelled up from London so I could show them round. We’d already walked to FACT, the Pier Head, the Tate and then along Jamaica St so we were tiring but looking forward to what I’d promised was the most interesting gallery. Shame. Not even a note on the door to explain. Can’t imagine this happening at the Tate or Walker, shoddy treatment for the poor independent artists.
At least Jump Ship Rat and the Garage with the Dave White Cars exhibition were open so the journey wasn’t entirely wasted.
I couldn’t face a trip to Madchester after all, I went to the Novas building (yet again) to watch some of the transVoyeur filmed interviews with the American artists who never actually exhibited here due to funding problems. Its the last day at Novas tomorrow (Sat. 30th) but Ben Youdan was there today taking down his pictures made from sequins, so if you haven’t seen them its too late now.
I’ll really miss them and all the other stuff here, the International strand is good but I found the Independents & New Contemporaries more interesting/exciting.
The ‘Streets of Desire’ exhibition at Jump Ship Rat runs for another week though, it finishes on Nov 8th.
Hurrah for Mothman
Moth Man (artist Tony Knox) tells me that he won his wrestling match last Saturday despite impaired vision due to his mask slipping over his eyes. This was a return match against GPW wrestler Adam Fate who gave our hero such a beating in the video on show here.
An American Stuckist’s Perspective on the Liverpool Biennial
He seems to think St Luke’s is the Catholic Cathedral. A common mistake.
A few things finish this Saturday, including ‘Graduates 04′ at Arena and the Independents stuff in the Novas building. TransVoyeur are showing the culmination of filmed performances and interviews for the rest of this week, details
I’ve been sat at home all day waiting for the parcel DHL promised to deliver today, still waiting! I may be a traitor tomorrow and visit the Manchester Art Show
I braved the windy weather this afternoon to take a look at the art on display at Babycream in the Albert Dock. This is part of the BART strand which finishes on Saturday! Get round those bars quick before all the artwork disappears to be replaced by boring lager posters.
Here they have a couple of display cases containing Gillian Davis’s ‘Luxury Cocktail Accessories’ – very nice, they’d make a good gift if you’re into that sort of thing. There’s also John Gerrard’s ‘Planar Portrait’ in another display case, pictured here.
Of course, I had to try out the funky big red seats, now my back’s complaining!
I called here yesterday afternoon. The Museum MAN director, Adam Nankervis, actually lives here and the walls of his rooms, even the bathroom, are covered in artworks by artists from all over the world. Currently every centimetre of the kitchen walls and cupboard doors are covered with pages from medical books showing pictures of diseased parts of the human body. This is the work of Frank Shaepel and he was there to explain that if you can manage to ignore what they really are the images can look quite beautiful, the eyes can look like planets or universes.
There’s also works in the basement which you enter through a very small doorway under the stairs, its all very gloomy and spooky. There’s a bed of nails, peep-holes in the walls and an area where Jill Rock does performance art involving readings from favourite books and other stuff. I recommend it, there’s a good mix of art and is worth visiting just for the quirky fun of it all.
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Seen & Heard 2 at the Bluecoat this evening. I love dance but don’t often get to see it for one reason or another. I really enjoyed this, there were more people there than the organisers were expecting so I didn’t get a copy of the programme, I think they were mostly dance students from LIPA. We started in the courtyard with 3 girls dancing among the ice sculptures, it was lovely but lucky it wasn’t raining.
Then up to the concert hall for lots more dancing to Abba and techno music and a dvd screening. Great stuff, and it finished in time for me to watch the second half of the football in the pub.
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