Thursday, October 11, 2007

Makes a change to a Sat night in the pub

So Dominque Fratteti, Sky News celeb, wants to play on Saturday.

This is what I have in store...

Experiment Marathon

Steven Pinker and other leading scientists join artists at the Serpentine Gallery for a 24-hour Experiment Marathon featuring robots, three-way kissing booths and out-of-body experiences


Last year’s, now legendary, 24- Hour Interview Marathon has been expanded in scope.

The 24-Hour Serpentine Gallery Experiment Marathon, introduced by Julia Peyton-Jones and presented by Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist, will take place in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007 and will feature experiments performed by leading artists, architects and scientists.

Featuring: Marina Abramovic; Simon Baron-Cohen; John Brockman; Peter Cook; Tim Etchells; Sophie Fiennes; Armand Leroi; Gustav Metzger; Steven Pinker; Pedro Reyes; Matthew Ritchie; Israel Rosenfield; Tomas Saraceno; Angela Sirigu; Andreas Slominski; Luc Steels; and Lewis Wolpert.

The experiments will explore ideas of time, space and of reality through models, vibrations and perception, investigating Eliasson's assertion that 'What we have in common is that we are different.'

Well fancy that!

3 comments:

RG said...

so did you go? were you k-i-s-s-i-n-g?

The latte days in North London said...

Of course not! Anything remotely outside a comfort zone is dangerous. There should be an eleventh commandment. "Thou shalt not organise other people's social activities."

That'll teach me and now I have stopped!

RG said...

personally i am never more uncomfortable than when in the comfort zone, in fact i fear i have travelled so far from it that i will never find my way back there again. and they wont let me even if i did, not now that i have the plague and carrots growing out of my head.