Visited Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970 at the Tate Modern. I felt that the works were absent of the feeling of freedom and new mediums that they would have been created in. Perhaps to do with the curating, or maybe the ‘Tate Modern Experience’ where the space is so heavily loaded with the feeling of 2005. It all felt mixed up and crowded in together. Marcel Broodthaers ‘Boat Painting’ 1973 was an interesting use of rotating slides of close up sections of an old oil painting. It had a similar effect to my flash work Sand 2004. I enjoyed Bruce Nauman ‘Around the Corner Piece’ in which, as the viewer, you are an essential performer in the work.
Open Sound Systems: Alvin Lucier concert at the Tate Modern. Fantastic! Really interesting approach to sound as art / space / science. My favourite was first, by Alvin Lucier ‘In Memoriam of Jon Higgins’ where a constantly ascending synthesised tone was played. A clarinet player would hold constant notes, closely tuned to the tone which would create beat frequencies as the tones collide.