Breaking the Rules at the British Library

Breaking the Rules at the British Library was a great exhibition. It certainly tested my knowledge of history! There were a lot of interesting articles and text about specific items and dates between 1900 and 1937.

The parts i enjoyed the most were the Visual Poetry...



...The Total Work of Art (Gesarvthunstwerk), New Vision...



...and the Photography and Film, 'Film und Foto'


These are short quotes from some of the exhibits to see more go to the British Library before the 30th March 2008!

Out of the Ordinary- Naomi Filmer

This video shows a set of images created by Naomi Filmer titled 'Lenticulars'. Towards the end of the video you can see the effect of the images and how they change.

Out of the Ordinary, Spectacular Craft

Out of the Ordinary at the V and A click here for the home page. This is a great exhibition to see how some artists take on the theme of 'Everyday' and each using their own materials and style to show the theme.

Below show some images from the exhibtion.

The image above is 'The Book of Humanity: The Empty Book'. The Book of Humanity is supposed to red but somehow uploaded blue! So this is what it would look like if it was blue! The image below shows the whole of Lu Shengzhong's exhibit. On the right is the 'Human Walls and Bricks' and on the left is the 'The Book of Humanity' in its true colour, both are made up of frog shaped cut outs. Both the templates and the cut out shapes.

This is Annie Cattrell's exhibit made from glass. The image below is a series of clouds that have caught in the moment, titled 'Conditions'.
The image below here shows a set of human lungs (roughly at a 2:1 scale) titled 'Capacity'. Made from glass. It would interesting to know how this was done because they appear to be hollow, but do give off some nice shadows.
This is part of Naomi Filmer's exhibit, this is titled 'Ball Lenses'.

Practice Research Part II

As a follow up to the research of practices in my last focus week I am planning to send some emails to the following practices;

Jerde
Belt Collins
Hassell
Urbis

All of the companies have offices located around the world, I'm focusing on the Hong-Kong office for each company. If you wish to visit any of the practices click the names above and it should take you to their respective home pages.