Reflections From Damaged Life Exhbition

I have been wanting to go to an exhibition for about 2 months now so finally I got the chance to actually do it so yesterday I went to London to Raven Row Gallery. I went to see the exhibition about psychedelia and it was fantastic. There were some very inspiring pieces in there, especially the videos that they were playing.

The films that were playing were
- Seance (1959) 16mm film. 3 minutes 30 seconds
- World (1970) 16mm film. 6 minutes
- Chakra (1972) 16mm film. 5 minutes 20 seconds

I have been unable to find any links to the films that were on, but I did manage to find a film by the composer of the music in all 3 films, who upon further research I realised he had actually made all of the films too, which is not too dissimilar to what was played in the exhibition.

The following link is to an excerpt from the film 'Music of the Spheres' which has the same mesmerising qualities as the videos that were being shown.

http://vimeo.com/29465984

Below is a link to a website with the film notes for Jordan Belson's films:

http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/BelsonFilmNotes.html

Another feature of the exhibition was a light show called L'Expedition Scintillante by Pierre Huyghe. A large white box emitted dry ice onto which different coloured lights were shined. It is apparently inspired by a dream that he had where he had been to a Pink Floyd concert in the 70s.
When the dry ice would go up into the lights it reminded me of the plumes of food dye in my video for the last project but it was a million times better, more extravagant and way more beautiful.

Much of the stuff in there, particularly work by Erno Metzner, Mark Boyle and Joan Hills and some photographs of Orgonite were extremely interesting to me as this made me realise I need to be pushing boundaries with my work like they did.

 Erno Metzner

Mark Boyle and Joan Hills