Sunday, June 03, 2007

Camden Green Fair and Bikefest 2007

My weekend tour of major London events (England v Brazil on Friday, Tess' barbecue on Saturday) was completed with today's visit to the Camden Green Fair and Bikefest 2007, which was Green in the sense of en-vi-ron-ment, as opposed to "the colour green", or "the village green", or "can it be that I hold here in my mortal hand, a nugget of purest green?"

We were treated to some West African music, followed by the dubious spectacle of an all-female modernist morris dancing troupe strutting around to the strains of Bohemian Rhapsody, and to top it off, a catwalk show of organic fashion.

We failed to see very many bikes. Maybe they were somewhere else. However we did come across this lovely sculpture of skewered furniture, which was apparently a "challenging and striking exposé of the recycling potential of ordinary household objects" (I paraphrase with wild inaccuracies).

It wasn't as good as Duncan's cup.*
Edit: Or in fact this, to reply to Tim Barton's comment.

* See the British Institute Newsletter, issue 3, (out of print) or the British Institute Art Exhibition Catalogue, 2003 (not in existence).

2 Comments:

At 5:44 PM, Anonymous Anonymous opined,

"an all-female modernist morris dancing troupe strutting around to the strains of Bohemian Rhapsody"


i am (almost) literally crying with envy at the thought of you seeing this

ps. i often fail to get the word verification thing right. i am a fool

 
At 5:18 PM, Anonymous Timothy Barton opined,

Looks like one of the silly DalĂ­ works of art in Figueres consisting of TVs stacked on top of each other.

 

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