The second day in London, I actually spend almost all day long at the Tate Modern Gallery. This gallery is one of the most wonderfull galleries I know. As there was a 15 week long performance/ interactive week, it was very inspireing.
One of the most inspiring for myself was the work from Juan Downey. He used the Allegory from Plato about the cave.

Quote " The Allegory presents, in brief form, most of Plato's major philosophical assumptions: his belief that the world revealed by our senses is not the real world but only a poor copy of it, and that the real world can only be apprehended intellectually; his idea that knowledge cannot be transferred from teacher to student, but rather that education consists in directing student's minds toward what is real and important and allowing them to apprehend it for themselves; his faith that the universe ultimately is good; his conviction that enlightened individuals have an obligation to the rest of society, and that a good society must be one in which the truly wise (the Philosopher-King) are the rulers."
see link: http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/allegory.html


It was a big dark room with nine people sitting with their backs to the entrance and meditating. Infront of each was a camera, which filmed each face. These films could be seen at the back of each person, on the boxes on which they were sitting. The meditators could see the shadows of the visitors.
This gave the effect of the Plato Allegory. It was so fascinating and since I had just read about Plato I knew what Juan Downey had in mind when he made the piece.
All in all london was a super creative and inspiring short trip. Good that I went!!! :)


Tomorrow I will be posting about my experiment with beamers and a fog machine. Inspired by the work of Anthony Mc Call.