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Shape Two began at at Whitechapel Art Gallery on a Sunday. There is now a second entrance to the gallery: just next to a fast food restaurant – 20 metres west of the main entrance – is a tin...
https://thechaoticsemiotic.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/shape-two/
The Shape began close to a ghost road in East London. Ostensibly, the junction at the southern tip of Kingsland Road is a crossroad. Except it isn’t. The junction is the convergence point of fo...
https://thechaoticsemiotic.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/shape-one/
Saturday. It had cracked on impact and the car had driven away. But the lamp-post stood, angled, grey and resolute, a soldier in a town that ignored it. Saturday evening. From its wounded, brut...
https://thechaoticsemiotic.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/street-furniture-death/
In the last 12 months I have spent a year away from the city of London whilst I traveled the world, and during that journey I was initially relieved to be gone. But after some time I began to exp...
Man in Regent Street is auto-destructive. Rockets, nuclear weapons, are auto-destructive. Auto-destructive art. The drop drop dropping of HH bombs. Not interested in ruins, (the picturesque). Aut...
https://thechaoticsemiotic.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/auto-destructive-art-manifesto-1960/
Clearly a broad question but what is the role of art and art galleries? Today I went to a modern art gallery in which, on one floor, an employee of the gallery had been given the opportunity to c...
https://thechaoticsemiotic.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/inside-out/
It was on a British programme called Ghosts On The Underground that I first heard about the WWII tragedy at Bethnal Green Station. The programme’s format was to interview LU staff, who spun the...
https://thechaoticsemiotic.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/the-homicidal-crowd/
Hal Ashby, one of the great but underrated Hollywood editors described the art and craft of editing as “…the perfect place to examine everything…everything is channeled down into that strip...
https://thechaoticsemiotic.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/life-lessons-from-the-cutting-room-floor/
This has been inspired mainly by Thorsten’s post on the HPLL blog about his morning bus journey (on which I originally wrote this post as a comment), but it also ties in to some nostalgia from ...
https://thechaoticsemiotic.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/london-now-im-not-there/