ANISH KAPOOR IN BRIGHTON 2009: Blood Relations ~ The Movie.

Anish Kapoor
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A film is as faithful to a sculpture as a tee-shirt is to a movie.
Much of Anish Kapoors work has, at its foundation, the premise that sculptures can only be known through the fact of being in their presence, and that everything that is not the sculpture itself, is merely anecdotal interpretation. Visit a sculpture and you know the sculpture's affects on you – but if you read about the same sculpture, you only know someone else’s opinion, which is seldom sculpture.

So I have put this video here, partly to illustrate the rather laboured point above, but also because the text, as a form, deserves to be made accountable to those who might want to study it, deconstruct it, or maybe just couldn’t make the five widdershins that it takes to read it all, without getting dizzy (only happens in glorious 3D reality - yep, its a sculpture).

After hours in Fabrica

For the past three weeks me and David have been taking it turns to watch over the Anish sculptures, both to help Fabrica and to earn a little bit of needy cash. Sitting around for hours minding a pile of pigmant gives you some unlikely insights, it is, I suppose, a privileged position though at times it can feel otherwise.

We also noticed that there isn't a clear guide to all the Anish Kapoor sculptures in the Brighton Festival. As a good way of filling the long night time hours we thought we'd write a blog version ourselves.