Baltic Flour Mills

What a Long post this would be if i talked about every thing i saw on that day. Thursday 9th April i went to gateshead to see the opening of a major new show at the Baltic Mills. The Plan was to catch the end of this exhibition.

Eat

then go back to check out the opening event of this exhibition

Of course there wasnt that much of an event unless you were vip which i most certianly am not, but the show was to pretty good. I think its good when art has a sense of humor and a couple pieces at this show tickled me for a few days after. The show was commisioned to celbrate darwins life and works so artists that were working with evolutionry thinking and in some cases taxonomy were curated. The ever popluar Charles Avery and his "Islanders" were present. also involved was a wormory, a shed completely catogarised, a video of someone in a birdsuit telling people they need to live their society more like birds and just regurgitate food for their kids but the funnest of all was the video of two giant turtles trying to mate ironicly entitled "intelegent design". But as far as interaction or addressing the auidence there was none of this, although a massive ammount of human-art relations were happening none of the pieces were direct or even that strong. Still an interesting cutaratorial idea and an enjoiable show but nothing ground breaking.......................... but then would i even reconise a revolution? sod knows.

Upstairs a whole load of Sarah Sze had exploded everywhere.

Cameras were not alowed so you'll just have to image it was rather similar to this but on a larger scale covering the entire floor and room. It was like its own lifeform or parasitic species spreading out, not imposing just intreeging. some parts of it were civilisation like others just like shapes but whatever you think of it you cant help but lean closer. try and get as close you can just to see what the detail is this is pretty clever i think humans cant escape the desire to see how something works and what its insides are like.

not much indepths thought about this set really.