Download Friday
October 27, 2006
I only managed to add one link to that last post but I think everything had been linked to before somewhere anyway... I've Just been downloading this months 40 tunes from e-music and "chilling" [here and there] to three tracks by Rudresh Mahanthappa from the Mother Tongue album, which will have to do me untilI get my hands on Codebook.
I finally succumbed to The Raconteurs album as well. I'm no great fan of the White Stripes by any stretch of the imagination, but on hearing Blue Veins I'm quite sold on Jack White's "Robert Plant" impression! Just got to find time to listen to The Knife and DJ T. now!
And now... Time for a couple of neglected bookmarks...
I squeezed in an episode of Peeling Back The Years tonight too; John Peel, in conversation with John Walters, from 1987. fantastic stuff. Even 19 years ago it was hard to believe that John Peel had grown up listening to the music that he had, given his eventual tastes. I also managed to download the .rm files to this show and convert them to MP3, along with the other five in the series. If you don't know how ask Sven.
Mustn't forget to visit the Louise T Blouin Institute to see the James Turrell exhibit before its too late [that's February I think!]... And must get myself some Fridge Tetris.
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Power To The Weather
October 24, 2006
 China Power Station was a great, if wet, experience. Not that we took much notice of the art. The building [what remains of it] is far too interesting in itself... Thankfully, despite being told to the contrary we were able to take photos. Wish I'd actually taken my camera rather than just my phone now! The scale of the place is a bit much for a wee cameraphone. Still got a few shots between showers.
Just downloaded Mary Anne Hobbs Warrior Dubz from Bleep, which is, mostly, a lot deeper and darker than I had expected but still good for it, particularly like Versus by Burial. Downloaded the Underworld, Cocoon performance as well. So thanks to whoever got that online! Will stick a few links here tomorrow if there's time.
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Zoo, Frieze And The Affordable Art Fair
October 20, 2006
 It's been a bit of a week since the last post. Went to the Zoo Art Fair last Friday [very poor] and Frieze on Saturday. That's a big fair... I heard 5 figure sums being bandied about without the bat of an eyelid and the place was heaving. I thought I'd test out the camera on my new K800i there which got some pretty good shots for a phone.
Picture: Barnaby Furnas [detail]
Checkout my Flickr set to see what caught my eye this year because I can't be arsed to type it all again here. There are plenty of notes with the photos. Artists whose works I particularly liked include Julian Opie, Candice Breitz, Franziska Holstein, Brian Fahlstrom, Barnaby Furnas, Anselm Reyle, Callum Innes, Federico Herrero, Jason Martin, James Welling, Pia Fries, Jenny Saville, Liam Gillick, Peter Zimmerman and Yan Pei-Ming.
Monday night was Fulham v Charlton, Tuesday was Little Britain. Funnier than the football, but only just. That's not to say LB wasn't funny, but the football was so poor for about 60 minutes that it was funny! I must say that the stage set/visuals for LB was so good it almost distracted from the comedy. If you haven't seen it [yet] the set is a white backboard with a few doors, which the computer generated "sets" are projected onto, zooming in from scene to scene and filling in during longer costume changes and Tom Baker voice overs. The ad libs [how spontaneous they were is debatable] were good too!
Thursday we went to the Affordable Art Fair for the first time. AAF is held in a huge structure in Battersea Park and Thursday was a drinks reception. Sensibly they had tables of free wine [supplied by McWilliams] at each end so you could get a glass, walk an aisle, ditch your empty and pick up another. Had we got the offer of free tickets sooner, it would have been totally free, but I assumed none were going to be forthcoming this year so we bought some. It's a very well organised event, with transport to and from Sloane Square tube for nowt, a creche, cafe, bloody smart loo's [for what is in effect a big tent] and a packing service for your purchases. I didn't take any photo's as I'd never have been able to neck so much of the free wine and carry the piles of cards, brochures and leaflets we collected.
The best work, in my opinion, at AAF was by Tim Woolcock on The Russell Gallery stand. Beside The Wave had a few artists I liked too. Mostly Paul Wadsworth and Roy Goodman. Amanda Ralfe on the Rowley Contemporary Art stand continued what appears to be a bit of an abstract sea/landscape theme I've just noticed!
Vera Schumacher had the Expressionist paintings of Gernot Kissel who is also well represented by the Biscuit Factory, where we stopped for a quick chat and to admire Brian Pike's humourous little paintings. The Exhausted Bee was my favourite.
A slightly similar style to Tim Woolcock were the paintings by Mary Pym, who I spotted at The Wykeham Gallery and Marine House At Beer, who also had some nice pieces by Martin Proctor. I can't say I've searched every artist individually but very few seem to have their own websites. A couple who do are Rachel Gallagher, Dawn Reader and Kate Raggett. I particularly like Kate's minimal charcoal works. Especially Presence.
A few others I noted were William Austin on the New British Artists stand, Rob Newton at the Tallantyre Gallery, Ray Malone at Wahle Contemporary Art.
There were quite a few representations of Battersea Power Station on various stands. Clapham Art Gallery of course had Paul Catherall and StART Space had Colin Halliday. Which brings me to today... We're off to China Power Station this afternoon.
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Crazy, Crazy, Crazy
October 13, 2006
 Wow! How long is this Underworld feed from Cocoon, Frankfurt, going on for?
I expected it to finish an hour ago! But including, what must have been less than an hour interlude from Sven Vath, they are approaching 4 hours now.
I've got to be up at 6.00! Turn it in lads... Mind you, it's bloody good! Ah.. here comes Moaner. This must be it. No one can follow this. Not even Underworld.
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Art Or Bust
October 11, 2006
 I got a press invite for the new D*Face exhibit far too late this evening - Shame. Might make it down to Stolen Space before it's all over on the 22nd October. I missed the Institute For Serendipitous Sonopticity at the Roxy in Borough last night too! Which looked intriguing.
Got to try and fit Zoo and and Frieze in before the end of the weekend as if humanly possible.
Image from Death & Glory by D*Face
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That Luncheonly Feeling
October 08, 2006
 We went to The Greyhound, Battersea High Street, for lunch today. Geographically I was doubtful as to whether this was a good idea or not. Gastronomically, it was...
I don't know if it was sitting on the table next to Mark's* wife, child and parents or not, but there was a fantastic family vibe to this place [they weren't there when we were seated, so I suspect it was natural!].
As 50% of our table had already opted for the Lamb Shank, I went for the beef. I could have asked for it to be cooked a bit longer I suppose but it was a bit disappointing. The Lamb, on the other hand, looked awesome! The clean plates confirmed this. The Pork Belly pudding that passed by also looked worthwhile... This isn't really a beef [ha ha!], just a poor decision on my part. We'll be going back again I'm sure. Next time we'll be taking reinforcements, to make sure I have every base covered. That way I can try everything!
My replacement MOO prints arrived, on Friday, which was very efficient I must say. I'm not over convinced I'm comfortable with the dimensions they've chosen to work with [28 x 70mm] but I guess I'll learn to live with them as the actual print quality is very good. I'd quite like to be able to align stuff to the right rather than the left, flush to the "buddy icon", and add a few more characters per line [I can't fit "steve.wilde@" before the domain name for this site] on a single line... Other than that? Moo's the word.
We went to see Jane Bussman's, Bussmans's Holiday on Friday. Which was better than I expected it to be. Well... that's a bit of an unfair remark as I wasn't entirely sure what it would be in the first place! Jane's kind of a Spalding Gray in heels, I guess, and has a great knack of making you laugh and feel uncomfortable about it at the same time.
I've just been planning to go to Art London tomorrow until Sam reminded me that we're supposed to be waiting in for the "Royal Mail" to deliver my new phone... Which nobody is able to predict the delivery time of, so will probably involve me waiting in all day...
I'm currently suffering the guilty pleasure of really enjoying The Feeling
*Mark van der Goot is the owner of "The Greyhound"
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Still Moving
October 05, 2006
 Popped along to see the Mapplethorpe's at the Alison Jacques Gallery yesterday. It's a very small gallery, but large enough for the photos on display. Patti Smith on the ground floor, Lisa Lyon upstairs. I think I'd seen quite a few of the images at the Retrospective [at the Hayward Gallery 10 years ago] but it was good to see the Coral Sea and American Flag shots included here and the Still Moving film made the visit worthwhile by itself.
Picture: "Lady" video in upper gallery.
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Bleep Tags
October 04, 2006
 Tagged
Five new works by artists working with RFID technology as part an ongoing project produced by space.media.arts runs from 6 - 21 October. Electronic tagging technologies are set to shape the future, so they say. Radio Frequency Identification [RFID] tags use radio waves and can potentially function without your knowledge!
Amongst other artist at Tagged will be Paula Roush, with Arphield Recordings. Paula records the sound of citizens scanning their Oyster Cards in London Underground stations, and outputs them in live performance, installation and public intervention.
Pioneers of Electronic Music
Slices, part of Electronic Beats Magazine Pioneers Of Electronic Music Volume 1, release a documentary film about Richie Hawtin on October 27th.
Bleepfest '06
Bleepfest is a computer and electronic music demo day taking place on October 7th at The ICA, The Mall, London, SW1
Featuring: black mariah , chicanolive, curfew deprogram deborah (Flying Lizards), fe_bac, eidkik, evol_i, fisk industries, jack shirt, joseph young, julian hughes, kid functional, l.o. freq, moocha, pablo perezzarate, polyphonic soulo, register, rhythmology, robot bleeping, sleep machine, slowsound, stone 3. More about the running times and stuff HERE
I won't be able to make Bleepfest but I hope to be able to get along to Tagged - Just remembered we're off to see Bussman's Holiday at the Soho Theatre on Friday as well. My 10 free Moo prints arrived today. Prompt, beautifully packaged... and containing somebody elses pictures! DOH!!!
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Reverse Grafitti Wars
October 03, 2006
 British street artist, Moose [Paul Curtis], creates graffiti by cleaning dirt from pavements and walls. Sometimes for money, sometimes not, with some images used as temporary advertising.
But Leeds City Council, amongst others, have been considering what to do with Moose. They consider his reverse grafitti vandalism... Weird!
Super Mario War is a bit of time-wasting, nostalgic, silliness. Not sure how long it will last when Nintendo get wind of it though.
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Light It
October 02, 2006
 Myatt's Field Park
Camberwell
London SE5
Fri 20 Oct 2006
6.30 - 8.30
Admission: FREE
Google Map
Picture: Disinformation, The Origin of Painting
Light It is a two-hour long festival of light. "A spectacular promenade event, which uses light as a magical, transformative and spiritual force, cross-referencing the major festivals of Diwali, Halloween, Eid, Fireworks Night, Day of the Dead and Chanukah, which are all variously celebrated by local communities".
Developed in collaboration with creative production company Home, the event includes video installations, circus art, music & sound, pyrotechnics, sculptural artworks and more. Artists include The Barefoot Company, Poulomi Desai, Disinformation, In Toto Theatre, Sofie Layton, Mandinga Arts, Howard Matthew, Ali Zaidi.
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China Bob!
October 01, 2006
 It's the last week of showing the Robert Mapplethorpe Still Moving & Lady exhibit at the Alison Jacques Gallery.
4, Clifford Street, London W1X 1RB
Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm
After that it's China Power Station: Part 1. From Oct 8th - Nov 5th [Thurs - Sun/12-7pm], which is a [probably first and] last chance to see Battersea Power Station in its present state. The Serpentine Gallery take up residence for 5 weeks giving the showing the work of a new generation of Chinese artists and architects.
1 hour tours only I believe and NO BLOODY PHOTOGRAPHY ALLOWED!!! Arse!
Oh! And the Zidane movie and Chocolate Week!
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