Sophie Calle exhib at Whitechapel
Points of View: Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs at the British Library http://www.bl.uk/pointsofview/
Photography collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/
Of Dreams and Cities at BFI Southbank http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/november_seasons/of_dreams_and_cities
Garry Fabian Miller (photo that was in the overview permanent stuff at V&A titled "Breathing in the Beech Wood, Homeland, Dartmoor, Twenty Four Days of Sunlight")
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/past_exhns/miller/index.html
http://www.jameshymangallery.com/pages/exhibition/760.html

look who's back: http://www.siteenvirodesign.com/ (or S.I.T.E. never actually go away...?)
the A.O.C. http://www.theaoc.co.uk/
Douglas Coupland's 2nd house (renovation in Vancouver) http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/08/12/garden/20090813-location-slideshow_index.html
http://www.arcspace.com/books/taschen/Case_Study_Houses/csh_book.html
http://www.artsandarchitecture.com/case.houses/

http://www.beardsworth.co.uk/
http://www.fstopmagazine.com/
http://copyrightaction.com/node
(to look at later)

archity:
http://www.horhizon.com/
http://cfd.wimbledon.ac.uk/ - centre for drawing
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/sophie-calle-talking-to-strangers

http://www.americansuburbx.com/
photography stuff, interviews, essays.

i like this project: making useful and fun stuff from the Olympics site bright blue hoarding as the contractors are taking it down. http://superniche.org/2009/08/24/the-blue-fence-project/

also - a chance (if more tickets appear) to see the Kingsway subway, on until 8th November. http://measure.org.uk/measurenews.html

saw 3 exhibs last week:

Sarah Oppenheimer and Yuko Shiraishi at Annely Juda, very quiet when it's not a David Hockeny show... the piece of gallery floor, lifted, shaped, cut for views, looking a bit like some high-tech stealth aircraft, was rather good, wedged into the gallery. and a small maquette unfolded flat in a frame, showing the skeleton (although it was flat against the wall and looked like it should have been lifted away, like its life-size version). The Space Tea House was alright, in a way it should have been better, but it was in an airless gallery, isolated, when it seemed like it should have been installed on a rooftop (Annely Juda has some fine rooftop views) with the damp grey sky occuppying its wirey thin frame.

Castellani Flavin Judd Uecker at the Haunch of Venison - occupying bits of a ground floor wing and upstairs. i like the way those minimal installation pieces blur into the gallery - the round glassy CCTV camera in the corner, and the old lighting tracks in the ceiling, all getting absorbed into the work, no edges. There was a funny inbetween windowless room - just a small lobby between two other rooms, with open doorways into each - with green fluorescent tubes diagonally arranged on the wall (must've been a Flavin piece) which had the rather entertaining effect of making the rooms either side really pink. even when you know! brain - stop trying to white-balance the green! amazing really. and there's a funny little ping! when you leave and see out of the window and everything is normal again.

okay, lastly, Rosalind Nashashibi at the ICA. much better than i was expecting - good little incidental moments. a big room downstairs with a projection room in the middle and projectors facing 3 of the walls. peering into the projection room, what appears to be a leak or incidental reflection of the side projection, overlaid with the light coming through the fan bit (stripey), it must've been deliberate, a proper projection and a little one going the opposite way, but i couldn't work out or quite see how. starting with the glass window right infront of the projection lens tilted at about a 45degree angle though, perhaps. and the other two projectors played alternately, and while the other one played you could sit on the bench facing the non-projection - just a white rectangle painted on the grey wall, and watch the colours of the rectangle shift and change with the reflected light from around the room. Upstairs, an absolutely genius piece - so simple and perfectly executed. 16mm film of a woman, mostly seen from behind, walking around Southbank. not continuous, nicely edited, and with sound. plays as a continuous loop (here's the genius bit) on two projectors, projecting side by side. they weren't protected so it was as fascinating to watch the film wind diagonally across from one to the other, as to watch the projected film repeat perfectly and inevitably , never catching up, side by side. near the beginning there's a bit where the film judders and the projector rattles - must be something to do with the sprocket holes out of line - and of course it does it a few seconds later on the other projection. dunno why but that especially pleased me... worth seeing.

came across this article http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jul/08/human-shrub-colchester
- the comments are quite an entertaining read

went to Kettles Yard on sunday to see upside down / inside out, which was lovely, especially the Winnifred Nicolson flowers on a windowsill (hung on the wall facing Castle Hill to be seen from the pavement) with sunlight through leaves and tissue paper, the gathering in one room of Kit Wood and Alfred Wallis paintings, and in the house, particularly the beautiful black and white pinhole photos of the house by Kathryn Faulkner, hung in visual echoes, and the grouped Edmund de Waal ceramics, at once domestic and refined. actually, there were a lot of echoes, what with photographs of the place hung in the place, or in a nearby room, or captured in a little camera obscura; paintings familiar from the house hung in the gallery; repeated motifs of collected pots, fake pets, glossy black acrylic screens across different rooms... it reminded me that a similar thing happened, albeit in a much more contained way, at the Roni Horn exhib earlier this year. Bought "Light Spells" last year, and really should look at it properly.

was referred to as a "gentleman" upon entering KY house. for a moment i wonder which of us, out of Liv and myself was the lady and which the gent, but i figured since i wasn't the one wearing the partly-pink swishy skirt, it was probably me... this sort of thing doesn't surprise me when people aren't really paying attention, but the other day i was in a bar/club, can't remember where but it had a toilet attendant. i was in there washing my hands and she said "are you a boy or a girl" "what?" "are you a boy or a girl?" "oh. um, a girl" (me looking confused). bit of clue there - i'm in the ladies aren't i? meh, whatever.

Kathryn Faulkner has been up to some good stuff in the several years since the Light Spells work, must keep an eye on it: http://www.kathrynfaulkner.com/

"film artist" Rosalind Nashashibi is showing at the ICA til 1st Nov. looks good?

one could waste a lot of time here:
http://www.songkick.com/venues/16741-junction/
http://www.songkick.com/venues/3428-scala
(etc)
oh look - my first gig! http://www.songkick.com/concerts/504370-radiohead-at-cambridge-corn-exchange

there's something quite lovely about these: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/gallery/2008/oct/08/denishealey.photographs?picture=338323369

(it's cheered me up from reading about higher education, anyway)