It takes a little while to explore the whole London. In fact so far it took me almost 6 years to do so and i am still learning. I am on my own for couple of weeks as my BF is in Alaska and I've got all the time for myself. It wouldn't really matter at all if he is away or not because we don't see each other very often anyway. But somehow it makes a difference. Maybe the mental fact of having exclusivity on all the time and space I am occupying and living. I've managed to do so many outstanding things in a meantime and today it was my culture day. on the way back from 37degrees gym i stopped for lunch just near by tower bridge and participated the fair trade event. They were promoting the fair trade products - healthy food from the third world countries. On my way back home I visited Barbican and I went to Ron Arad's exhibition http://www.barbican.org.uk/ronarad
it was very good one, all sort of different shapes and designs of sits, chairs, sofas...really impressive ones. next time I would like to see the birds exhibition, which is apparently one of the main events in Barbican http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?id=9713
To conclude my culture exploration on miserable rainy and freezing Sunday I went to see a miserable dance performance. At least at the beginning I had got such a feeling, likely later on i changed my mind. It was pretty good performance considering variety of different emotions I was going through the whole 2 and half hour performance (marie chouinard) http://www.sadlerswells.com/show/Marie-Chouinard
http://www.mariechouinard.com/flash.html
An organic and organised inquiry into the foundational wavelength.
'My source has always been the body itself, and especially the silence and the breath which make up the “invisible” stuff of life. At the root of each new work there is always what I call the “mystery”, an unknown wavelength that calls out to me in an almost obsessive manner. My work consists of capturing this primordial wavelength, of “tuning” it in a sense, and of arranging it in space and time with a structure and form proper to it. Since 1978, this is what I have been doing: listening attentively to the vital pulsation of the body to the point of crystallising it in a new order. Each time, I start afresh from zero. Each time, I focus and re-direct my “antennae”, I seek out a new “state”, I track this wavelength until everything is in line, like in a reinvented classical structure in which, I hope, the viewer’s own “mystery” will be revealed to her'.
Marie Chouinard
2000
I find it difficult to explain what it was about. I've got impression of being in the middle of psycho and special needs people hospital. The people on the half crunches, imitating the physical and mental handicap, either insects or animals. The first part was tariffing me, the second awake very strong feelings and emotions. At the end I was very alerted and couldn't find the exact feelings I was experiencing. But I presume this what performing art should be about - to leave the audience with unexpected emotions. That was definitely my case after watching above performance.
