A few weekends ago we went to a really excellent exhibition all about brain donation. My friend Megan who is a neuroscientist and really interested in art-science collaborations had found out about it and we decided to tag along. (Oh and beforehand I had breakfast at Dishoom in Covent Garden which had the best spicy chai and egg naans...mmm). But back to the art!
The exhibition was called 'Mind Over Matter' and was basically about de-anonymising brain donation. I found it absolutely fascinating, and the amazing setting of the Shoreditch Town Hall basement which was all twisty and turny underground was so perfect for it. You can see in the photos the various things the exhibition was made up of, including audio, photos dulled to represent dementia, and the other things to represent memory. This website tells you much more about the exhibition better than I can! We have an A5 picture of the lady from the website on top of our fridge at the moment - she was fantastic, even having a male stripper at her 100th birthday because, why not! If it ever comes to your town, absolutely go and see it.
Then after the exhibition, we headed up to the Bloomsbury festival in Russell Square, right by Adrian's work. They had a really eclectic group of things happening, from Siberian singers (surprisingly really good), to lots of food stalls, to art and crafts fairs, to book fairs. The best thing though was the poetry tunnel. You basically created a short (five or so word) poem from a selection of cards and then hung it up so people could walk through. I think the photos explain it quite well (and sorry, no idea why these photos can't go the right way up...):
So cool with all the random things you can do in London - never a dull moment!
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