Day 61 Memories of the Pier (Vis Com visit)

 On the 16th of March we met up at Holborn Station for a visit organised by Rod - it was a mystery destination which turned out to have quite a story behind it and which again raised questions (for me) about what was 'Art' and what was Vis Com.



Some dark ideas including divorce 

And perhaps celebrity/fame?





















Rod did not tell us much about the exhibition apart  from 'keep it to yourselves.'
Well here's some news Rod - the place is at  1a Princeton Street London WC1 - follow the link  - 

A little research revealed that the person behind it was  Tim Hunkin  who has a 'job' somewhere between eccentric, designer and artist he had a TV show on channel 4 that you can still see some episodes from on Youtube (like this one  all about the VCR- )

In fact the expedition reminded me of a hero of mine Professor Bruce Lacey and I thought again oh yes, that things can be 'fun' and also have a message.

I started to think about a sort of a hybrid game that was about 'Art' and Monopoly 

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