Work in town? Perfect coffee stop is the 11am London opening of the Carnegie Prize-winning Küba, an Artangel commissioned installation, at the Sorting Office on New Oxford Street. |
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The artist Kutlug Ataman (it's him on the telephone information line) spent more than two years exploring the physical and psychological Küba, and the show consists of forty subtitled (unless your Kurdish is good) DVD portraits. Each TV monitor has its own armchair, so you can really relax. Artangel, a publicly funded arts organisation, works symbiotically with artists developing one-off site-specific projects. Commissioned artists have transformed a vacant West End department store (Michael Landy's Break Down), and a Victorian East End terraced house (Die Familie Schneider in London), and the Sorting Office has been waiting for something edgy for over ten years. Talk about brand extensions: there's the Küba Café Bar and even a book launched with the show. And if you really get the bug, put Saturday May 7 in your diary there's a symposium with the artist looking at whether Küba is a place or a state of mind. You've got till then to work it out.
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Küba
at Artangel - March 22May 7 2005 The Sorting Office, 21-31 New Oxford St, WC1 Tues-Sun 11am7pm (Thurs till 9pm) - Free |
by SF |
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