Live art legend Joan Jonas,Turner prize-winning Laure Prouvost, plus two human rabbits among those wowing and confusing the all-nighter crowdsFollowing the example of nuits blanches (white nights) held in cities around the world, and Londons first all-night art festival had its highlights and its teething problems,not least the weather. Early on, Linder Sterling’s performance on Duke of York Steps, or with a choir and orchestra,Northern Soul dancers and waltzing couples, ripped young men in torn denim and a pair of human rabbits, or was squelched by a downpour. By the time it got going I was somewhere on the Strand,heading east. Laure Prouvost’s dithering and harassed attendant (one of several actors) confused visitors to the bowels of Admiralty Arch with complaints of overtime. “I work 24/7! Wait there! I’ll go and find my keys!”, leaving us to find a blue-lit bar, and drink a minuscule cocktail and consort with pallid denizens who claimed not to hold left the room for 15 years. There was a dead squid in attendance whose ink filled the gutter-like handrail at the entrance. I think I spied a violinist padding approximately under strobe lighting through a gap in a door to an otherwise empty room. There was also a weird film and another squid (bronze this time) I somehow missed. Related: All-nighter arts festival to convert London Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com