PIPILOTTI RIST's Eyeball Massage at the Hayward is a visceral, bodily, cacophony of earthly delights. Intensely visual there's almost too much to see! It was well curated with the dramatic differing scale to the projections and installations.
Beautiful and sensate the experience was indeed a good eyeball massage.
EMMA HART's To Do at Matts Gallery was a truly unique experience, it was a bit like entering a raucous alien zoo! The sounds added to the anamorphic quality of the sculptural camera and tripod combinations. This installation really did turn the tables on to the audience, in a literal way, as some of the cameras were constantly recording the gallery and it's visitors. Also there were instructive statements that guided the on-looker towards certain directions or contemplations. I found it to be a compelling and ground-breaking combination of lo and hi-tech with an edgy sense of humour.
TACITA DEAN's Film at the Turbine Hall is an ode to the comendable work Tacita Dean is doing to campaign to keep the medium of film alive and appose the onslaught of the digital. This film is given Cathederal-like status in the form of an enormous, elongated, portrait-format projection at the Turbine Hall, and is simply called Film.
I admired the statement of it more than the actual visual impact, I found myself thinking of it as a kind of billboard advertisment for the beauty of film as a pose to actually engaging with the purity of the medium: it's quality of light, colour, form and subtle movement.
Maybe I should make another visit.
