I need a pedometer

Last Saturday I finally went to Geneva! This time the city part, not just the airport. I pre-planned my trip on google maps, starring all the interesting looking places, which i’ve been doing a lot (thankyou google) and managed to make my way to the majority of them. At one point i stumbled across the Plainpalais flea market, which was accompanied by a circus that was either opening up or closing down. Stall after stall of junk and goodies and i came away with nothing. How terrible 

I visited the Fonds municipal d'art contemporain (FMAC) (or Le Commun?? i can’t quite figure out which is the correct name) nearby, where I saw the works of the winners of the Kiefer Hablitzel Prize. There was some fantastic work here and the one i found pretty mesmerizing was Chloé Delarue’s installation ‘TAFAA - DOUBLE PEEP AREA / IN SOLD WE ARE’

Later i visited the gallery Artveras in the old town part of the city, near the cathedral, which held an exposition titled ‘Red Desert’ covering themes of the many issues in todays society. Here is John Isaac’s ‘What lies behind what lies before’. I think i have a thing for fluorescent lighting tubes. To me these pieces portray a sense of nostalgia and longing, the neon lighting being something associated with retro bars and clubs and here are used for something almost quite the opposite. I would love to begin involving this material in my own work

Other places i visited included the resident Natural history museum, which was home to Big Al 2, the Allosaurus skeleton discovered after the original Big Al which I’d seen in Berlin earlier this year! The Reformation Wall was another, situated in the grounds of the university, and was pretty intimidating, especially the main five metre tall figures carved into the wall’s centre.

Later in the evening I went to Topic to see an expostion created by Lora and an ex-masters student of ECAV; Erika Pirl. it was a great night! Lora’s piece turned out to be very interactive as we found out after five minutes of wondering what to do with it. The idea was to scrape away at the silver coverings, like on a lottery scratchcard, until words were revealed underneath. Took a lot of muscle