Random London

was in London this weekend, it was grey and sunny and funny and boring
all at the same time, as usual.

We went to see the "Seduced" show at the great Barbican center, which,
apart from the Mapplethorpe pics, was not so great

the columns outside were somehow sexier

nice oversized lounge somewhere in the huge barbican

then over at Frieze art fair they had a sculpture part with a great Marc Bijl piece
courtesy of lovely Breeder
and some nice Jose Pedro Croft (looks like do-it-yourself Dan Graham but cooler)

fabulous Tobias Rehberger furniture
(I hate the word fabulous but how else to describe?)



great John Armleder wallpaper
funny Jennifer Bronstein at the totally anarchic Gavin Brown Enterprise where you could buy original artworks for 10 pounds and eat Gavin Brownies (the other galleries were a little freaked out)

great great great piece but I dont remember the name of the artist
Angelo looking Red and Bluenice staircase at the ICAbye bye funny "airplane in the sky" lounge-pillow

White Night Lecture

Here's the short lecture I gave, over and over, during the Nuit Blanche in Paris (even though I was in bed in Athens)

Last Night in Second France

They were having white nights allover Paris France and all the museums stayed open all night etc.


As part of that even Daniele Balit and Christophe Bruno curated an exhibition in Paris Second France and had invited me to give a lecture and also show Cloud House.

I logged in at some point but it was very busy and crashing and too much talk and too many people, so a bit like an opening where you have to type a lot. Instead I went back early sunday, the place was empty apart from a few people obviously left over from the night before, and I could see the show.

a lot of Yona Friendman Spatial City drawings, originally posted at Helfe Ihnen's big Yona Friendman project at another SL location, where I've contributed a Blue Wave building (I have to learn how to post SURL's I'm just too lazy)
Etienne Joubert's "Artiste Sans Tete"
a great Manetas floor
always funny and interesting Claude Klosky
I was trying to sit and watch this video but it kept sitting me backwards
or in weird running positions? (should I run more? Is this an omen?)finally a view of the whole show, which is put together like a precarious stack of floors designed (I think) by Ignazio Mottola, with the cloud as a cherry on the top, and its funny because this is the third time I'm asked to put a version of the cloud house on top of another building and here its so much easier because in Second Life you have no gravity and no budgets.

Random Post #xxx

The blog's been sleeping for a few days because I havent, but here's some random images I found under "blogged" though they never were. I guess at the time I thought I didnt need them, they were not good enough, not interesting, and now that I've nothing to blog (etc etc)

I think this was an ad for something, somewhere

cute building in Tokyo, somewhere close to boring Ginza
a plan of the Paolo Soleri Acrosanti complex, I might have even blogged this before
a nightclub sign from Cherry Grove in Fire Island. If you've read classic gay fiction like Andrew Hollerans' "Dancer from the Dance", then you've probably read about the Ice Palace
mirror building with eco-wig

Lost Interview

I had totally forgotten that I ever gave
this interview to some German TV channel
during DLD this past January(note to self: dont wear jacket with hoodie ever again)

Madrid in a flash

Not really a coherent post this time, was in Madrid for the opening of Sueño de casa propia, and had a chance to see the city briefly, and all the Bear bars in detail
the very cute but not so practical airport by Richard Rogers, and from there directly to Casa Encendida to install another model of the Cloud House

the video room with plants on top, almost a casa propria itselfbooks to read
cute cameraman under Yona Friedmans' corrugated cardboard "roof"
the Bouroullec brothers polysterine house the almost finished crazy Caixa foundation by Herzog & de Meuron
the curious Reina Sophia extension by Jean Nouvel

wich looks a bit like an ultra glam hoover, maybe not his best workand the fab Atochas train station.

If you´re in Madrid tonight...

Come to Casa Encendida for the opening of Sueño de casa propia, curated by Maria Ines Rodriguez with Pablo Leon de la Barra. Afterwards there will be a party on the roof with music by Augustine and Tolo, and after that another party, and another, Madrid never stops.

Forever Laser

Here's some pics from the just (almost) finished Forever Laser in Geneva. Select furniture by Ilias Lefas, some of the photos by Gregory Maillot.

Last night in Metaxourgio

Last night Rebecca Camhi gallery presented MirrorCloud, ScreenTree, Lichtplein and Walking Building at the fantastic screening "room" of ReMap_KM.
Here's a quick clip

Last night on the bridge Montblanc

A swan was sleeping on the black water

I think I woke him upa white flag with a black hole
Money and watches reflected

Some more destruction

Passing by a second time from the first Athens Biennial, I payed closer attention to some pieces that I missed during the opening. The exhibition was even better the second time around, but this was already last week so I'm a bit bored to wrtite about it. Still I bothered to bootleg a clip from Bernhard Wilhelms voguing national guard, so here's a quick clip:
also Narve Hovdenakk's "Neo-Man"
great Otolith group, though the installation could have been a little bit less ugly
some funny chairs watching Olaf Breuning's great "Home II" video
some blue tubes
AVAF deflated but still one of my favourite pieces, maybe even better in decadent state
creepy