decided to join instagram - https://www.instagram.com/les1bicknell/
it will be a documentation on my everyday activity that supports practice.
my instagram profile image is me dealing with and being dealt by the wonderful Alfedo
Jaar http://www.alfredojaar.net/main.html
piece at MOMA - Lament of the images http://www.moma.org/collection/works/138623?locale=en
I first saw it at The Tate in another iteration and then went to see it on my
last two trips to New York making the pilgrimage to be altered. His work for the Chile Pavillion at the Venice Biennale was extraordinary you had to really be there to get the full experience, comming across it - but check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFuAzBEOcMI
some films this
week - The 100 year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2113681/
a wonderful funny life affirming experience - in so many ways a better Forest
Gump! Parallels - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3479316/?ref_=nv_sr_1
nice idea but more of a tv series pilot as so many issues are either initiated
in the last 5 minutes or left as cliff hangs Dear
white people - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2235108/?ref_=rvi_tt
a quietly scathing look at racism and our role in it. the Aldeburgh festival
threw up Tamsin Waley-Cohen on violin and James Baillieu on piano - a front row
seat means that you really get the sense that playing an instrument is an
endurance sport. the Debussy and Elgar were discordant and challenging - speaking
of death, destruction and the context that they were created in - the new piece
by Freya Waley-Cohen with its loops and forceful architecture was an
interesting counter balance and gave space to consider our location. Looking
forward to the pump house on Friday - The wild man of Orford a piece based on
'actual' legend http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/origins63-the-wild-man-of-orford.html
and maybe stay to watch Dead Rat
Orchestra playing salt, sawdust and 200 shards of micro-tuned steel. Turn the
page book fair is this weekend in Norwich http://turnthepage.org.uk/
its great to see so many people who are connected to the MA Book Arts Course at
Camberwell attending - we have a stand this year - and I see that Rosie Sherwood will launch her new
poetry book and art installation 'The Ellentree' as well as Karen Apps
having her own stand - come along - it will be interesting as the
selection panel - Sarah Bodman, Su Blackwell and Jules Allen bring a wealth of
knowledge to their position as selectors.
