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Last Day...

Camden Market


High Tea

Packing

Modern Family Dinner :)

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Camden Art Center

Never the Same River Twice
curated by Simon Starling


The show was about exploring work out of its context of time, and how the pieces interrelate, and how that relates to and from a contemporary. Some really wonderful slections includeing Mark Nelson, Francis Alyse, and Christan Boltanski.

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East End Gallery Hunt.
So, we all met up at Burrough market and went on a gallery Hunt.
Then onward to the East End...

The First gallery we went to was above a tavern, interesting location. The work was mixed media sculptures, well rendered through a mix of plastics and wood. Not terribly, impressive but well fabricated.

The next Gallery was the Netti Horn Gallery
Showing two videos. One about with an angry young woman, and the
other a video montage of clips of how the media has rendered death; spanning from German Avante-guarde, Disney and Showtime's Six Feet under

Chicks On Speed
what can i say about plat form shoes and circuit bending that hasn't already been said...

to be honest when i first read chicks on speed i assumed, baby chickens ans was instantly appalled... however, it was cheeky (female i presume) sound art (and i really should say noise rock) installation.

stopped for a vegan cupcake and on ward to the next gallery

The next Gallery had a series of "disportraits" very nice
after seeing a portrait show earlier in the week. The gallery
attendants however were really rude.

The last gallery was actually surprisingly enougha lot like the first, abstract mostly geometric and linear work

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The National Portrait Gallery

Why we didn't go the natural portrait gallery, the same day as the national gallery, I don't know. Maybe the the later admission time... In any event, there was a portrait prize going on, which was worth seeing in theory. I don't know a whole lot about photo, the only photo background i have is PH101 from FIT that was a fashion photography classes, and some theory based on the reproducibility image (yep, I'm talking about Benjamin) so i found the images at least visually interesting to look at.


I really enjoyed the contemporary portrait gallery, seeing the blood head was nice, just as a contemporary art icon piece having to do quite literally with the body and identity. One of the older proratists I made a point of seeing, was Jane Austin, popular English writer author of Pride and Prejudice a personal high school favorite.



My Favorite show, was the portraits of English people in New York City. I am a New York's New Yorker, and fall within Saachi's description "New Yorkers think the sun rises and sets with the (NY) Times". I loved the simple black and white portraits and captions along side the image to relate each person to their backdrop.

(photo via emily's blog)

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A Rain Thames tour to the Prime Meridian

The Thames Rive tour, calling it a cruise is mildly over stating... was a tad underwhelming. It would have made more sense earlier in the trip, why would we want to see the out side of buildings from the water when we've already been inside, it was slightly counter-intuitive. Never the less it was a nice little sight seeing outing. The highlight of the tour, was Emily telling me about a show curated by Simon Starling, an artist whose work I enjoy in both practice and concept (and less so by what is actually produced...but that goes with the territory of concept based work...) so seeing his hand at curating sounded perfect.



Its really interesting to see the personification of measurable time, a man made construct that is universally agreed upon, in one way or another, for the world to operate on a global scale.

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Free Day : Sherlock Holmes Museum and Fish(less)&Chips

My mom is a long time Sherlock Holmes fan and I felt like I couldn't leave London without stopping by 221 Baker Street. It was really quite cheesy, and was crowed with a field trip of French students who were less than thrilled to be there. Never the less I'm glad I went.

I had been slightly jealous of people partaking in cultural dishes. While I am a very very very happy vegan, and I had searched up some stores to be healthy one while abroad, it seemed a little upsetting to me, from a completely kitchy-tourist way to not have fish and chips. Luckily London is very vegan friendly and there was a place called the Loving-Hut which had a faux fish and chips. Cruelty free and delish.