Art and News
To get there, you drive along the Alan Turing Way, passing B of The Bang, which is currently incomplete. Its big spikes are cut down in many cases because they dropped off!, just stumps now. But its always in your sight as you drive along that road – art for drivers.
At the Waterloo, its always frenetic – certainly for the managers and technical folk there. Mr Gurnam Singh is such an enthusiastic and helpful person and is right into the idea of artists getting involved in his centre. Phil, the technical manager had put the tv screen up in the small foyer, next to an enormous, but empty soft drink machine, again under florescent light. He’d hidden the dvd machine by hiding it under the drinks dispenser. We put Jo Lewington’s film in and all was working. Immediately several people gathered to watch the film. It shows the working process within a textile manufacturer. Jo got each worker to spend a few minutes wearing the head camera, so we see their movements and actions from their own point of view. People at the centre recognised the machines shown and named the work being done. They began to reminisce about the type of work that each of them had once done and the machines that are now used in the centre to train up people in different skills.
