London is very round I think

Today was full but relaxing, Juls and I wandered around some galleries, and sort of all over the place. We tried to see a psychadelic movie from the 60s at the BFI but it got cancelled. We did a lot of walking and explored Bethnal Green during daylight.

We went to the Gagosian first, to see Monsters and Things, an exhibition by Tom Friedman. He did all sorts of amazing/meticulous things with collage. He created creatures and lots of energy with very, very carefully cut paper. some sections, and actually a whole piece of very fine, curvey crazy lines. The collages had some recognizable faces and products, so I suppose it was a very funny commentary. He has another collage where there was a life size set of human legs carrying this box stuffed with body parts, elements disconnected from their systems, is the body supposed to be a burden? The whole show really interested me. Playful with meaning, and broad in terms of how he represented his ideas but still cohesive, if that males sense.

The next piece we saw was a sound installation (his name escapes me) but he's all about using obsolete technology. the piece was made up of two rows of old walkmans attached to little speakers, about as wide as a sidewalk. The sounds were all from old relaxation tapes, except the tape part of the tape was unraveled and taken out of the casing and sort of strung up to create this space. the tapes ran along the floor, up to the ceiling and back down, and they moved while the tapes played. It also had time working in several ways, some of the tapes had broken, or players stopped working. it was nice to watch some of the tapes quivering and whirring, and to see the physical space that stores the sound physically moving to create a space for/around the sound.

Lastly we went to an animation show that was ok, illustrator/vector like graphics pulsing. I thought the most interesting part was the presentation, TV sets turned on their sides and such.

then we got fish and chips.