Tate Modern Transition 1
Art Axis, 17/6/2016

Marking the inauguration of the new Tate Modern extension, the Switch House, on 17th June 2016, London Dada’s direct art action activist Art Axis activates a 2hr two-part 6 point green laser moving light show projected on the brickwork of Tate Modern’s ( Bankside power station)  dark and sinister 325ft ( c. 100m ) chimney stack – that was visible to millions of people over the whole of London – whilst not allowing the beams to be directed anywhere near people or into the sky, thereby remaining within the bounds of legality.
Image II plus video to follow…

This Dada protest Work highlights the acute need for change not only within art, but also in what is a still highly class-divided UK society and towards giving equal and fair opportunities to all, regardless of social background. The EU referendum gives all artists and creative thinkers a new opportunity to contribute towards a new nation, built on important values and for the benefit of all its people, not just a narrow London elite.

Signed edition of 10 fine art prints derived from selected  frame-grabs from the video to be shortly available of this seminal Dada light Work, July/ August 2016

THE TENETS OF DADA

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Here’s perhaps the cue needed for Tate Mod’s new director to get creative with a little night light show of her own up & running onto her gallery’s dark and dour stack. ( Jeez, why didn’t we think of that ) -. MSM 24 / 6/ 2016

* UPDATE
The Guardian, July 8th 2017
Maria Balshaw breaks cover on Tate Modern’s new art stance, never mentioned once during her predecessor Sir Nicholas Serota’s long stint as director,  vindicating  and validating London Dada’s long campaign for art that connects with life and the times in which we live.

” You can’t separate the arts or artists from events that are going on around them“
– not only exactly what the major UK arts institutions and museums have been doing since their inception, but also excluding or ignoring artists whose work attempts to do just that regarding issues of real concern here in the UK. Embracing Chinese dissident artists and the like is far too easy a cop-out.

Will Balshaw de-politicize art and allow a truly free range of expression? Unfortunately probably not, she didn’t get to where she is by upsetting the elitist UK art establishment status quo.
Yet at least in paying lip service to that ideal there belies a grudging recognition that real progress along those lines is inevitable less terminal banality sets in…..
– M. St.M

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The Snooze House – or a fresh stART?
c. Art Axis 2016

Having a nice lie-down whilst taking in the art in a “Capsule” ( Ricardo Basbaum, 2000 )
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Marking the opening of Tate Modern’s latest gallery extension, the Switch House. Mixed reviews abound, even from the largely bought-off MSM arts reviewers, point to a largely negative reaction to the mostly banal content of what is certainly the impressive – if somewhat unventilated and window-rationed-claustrophobic – brand new building abutting the old Tate Modern turbine hall.

Here’s perhaps a chance for the director to seize the moment and start incorporating some more genuinely thought-provoking and even, God forbid, awe-inspiring works from the wider art world, eschewing the ubiquitous cronyistic and nepotistic sterile South bank set-up
Talent is talent regardless of background. Decades of deliberate neglect of this axiom has lead to creative stagnation and stasis thoughout the arts and mainstream media.

More DaDa spirit now please, Frances Morris

Billion Man March IV
c. Banksidey, 2016

Footfall wear & tear on alloy pedestrian bridge steps, South Bank
First Work for LD by the artist Banksidey
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