The formative assessment of our Research Module took place on Monday this week with feedback on Tuesday. Normally I would have recorded the space yesterday, but I had planned to do a gallery-dash in London. I particulary wanted to see Gerhardt Richter and Tacita Dean. The Richter show was a tour-de-force with some of his work I was aware of and other real gems I had never seen before. I found his glass pieces unexpected and particularly beguiling. Tacita Dean’s, Turbine Hall piece was a gentle and nostalgic paean to the medium of film. Sequences were “threaded through” an image of the end window which I felt tied it beautifully to the site…very satisfying From Tate Modern I walked along the Embankment to the Hayward to see Pipilotti Rist’s show at the recommendation of a friend. Wow, I have not seen video presented in so many diverse ways at the same time. The presentation approaches drew you into her works and I was very pleased I went to see it. From there I went on to the John Martin exhibition at Tate Britain. I had been really looking forward to that but I found it strangely underwhelming. There was a repetitiveness about the works which in some way became rather tedious. Also, I don’t think the hang was helped by the rather “cheesy” AV show on the big tryptic, I would have much preferred to have seen them without the hubris.
Tomorrow is the “last day” and I will record the Research Module material and that will be it for this term.
