16 hours of art.
Performing Un sou pour vos pensees (A penny for your thoughts) in London for the first time; outside the Tate.
On the second day two Tate assistants approached me, I offered them a penny for their thoughts but they refused to accept and instead discussed the Tate/Southwark council boundary. Today I was straddling the boundary, leaning back against the pink art information sign. Yesterday I sat on the Southwark path only. They asked me to move. I asked them about the Tate – if it is publically funded and owned by the tax payers? One of them advised they couldn’t be seen to show bias, I didn’t respond but thought the nature of a gallery, by default, exhibiting some artists and not others, is bias. I tried, tested the water, to see if common sense would prevail and allow them to see my leaning on the Tate sign was no big deal and pointed out that ten minutes after they had gone I could just move back to my original position. They agreed there was nothing to stop me doing that. I didn’t but later thought I could sit on the Tate boundary side as a member of the public and leave my objet d’art laid out on the Southwark council side, the path and that would by-pass any issues. They then asked me what it was about. I politely refused to explain.
