Jake Oldershaw

No the Swiss installation artist hasn't been incarcerated for crimes against humanity, the title of this entry refers to the european capital of culture event 'All We Need' that we're showing the rice at.

I've been following Buchel's work a bit since MassMoca, (see the previous entry) and since arriving in a massive post-industrial space to become part of a large exhibition we keep noticing similarities here to his style. The most surprising of which isn't an art piece at all but a functioning police car pound that the organisers couldn't arrange to have moved. So as you negotiate the huge Tate-Modern-without-the-rebuild sized building, a large part is full of dust covered motors waiting like errant school children to be picked up by their parents. It works brilliantly with the themes of globalisation, western greed and materialism and accidentally counterpoints it all in a very pleasing way, Anyone who can get to Luxembourg in the next 6 months should go, be careful with our rice though please! We've never left it on its own before...

Check out the site here

http://www.allweneed.lu/

Posted by Jake at 12:17 PM | Permalink

The words 'Work' And 'Ethic' should never appear in the same sentence as far as i'm concerned. Having said that I'm appreciating being really busy at the moment. Since MassMoca I've travelled to Oz to do the rice at Womadelaide - 5500 people in 2.5 days, 40degreesC. Bloody intense.

On returning we got straight into making the new show 'The Cleansing of Constance Brown' with Stan and as if that wasn't enough I put on a short extract of the Dan Rhodes novel that i'm slowly trying to stage at a regular 'scratch' event called Pilot at the Custard Factory. A good night had by all I reckon.

This entry isn't really going anywhere except to thouroughly recommend to things I've seen in the last few weeks.

Paul Curreri is a fantastic singer songwriter who played the other week at the small and perfectly formed Taylor Johns House in Coventry. He's been taken on by their label Tin Angel Records. I caught him first on the sorely missed Phill Jupitus breakfast show on 6 music. He's a funny, heartfelt, shitkicking dude from Virginia yes siree.

Check him out here - http://www.paulcurreri.com/

The Lives of Others (Das Leben Der Anderen) won the best foreign picture oscar this year i think but as the Independent said don't let that put you off. Full of tension and understated emotion, brilliantly put together, I needed a stiff rum to come down afterwards.

Once again I'm travelling of this island with the rice on thursday. Luxembourg is apparently capital of culture this year and we're installing the show in a huge post-industrial space.

Like planet rock, we just don't stop.

Posted by Jake at 05:03 PM | Permalink