Location: Tate Modern, London
Exhibition: Poetry and Dream
Date: 22/07/07

Surrealism and the work of Jannis Kounellis and Giorgio de Chirico. Both employed techniques such as free association, chance, biomorphic form and bizarre symbolism. In the 1960s, Kounellis was active in the Italian Arte Povera group focusing on breaking with tradition. They used new materials and processes, for example, architecture and in particular theatrical settings.

Other surrealists:
Andre Breton - the idea of the 'revolution of the mind' drawing upon Marxism. In 1924 Breton wrote First Manifesto of Surrealism stemming from Freud's Uncanny.

Jackson Pollack - uses poetic metaphor to represent human condition, for example, a sculpture of a bed stand signifies 'protection'.

Hermann Nitsch - Poured Painting (1938) a performance piece. Performance occuring on the canvas and during the making as paint was poured on to the canvas to express aggressive sexual and moral issues.

Also that day...

...an exhibition Global Cities. Takes inspiration from the effect of architecture and urbanism on the contemporary world. Focuses on the ever-changing social, cultural and economic forces that give shape to a city. Some of the talented artists and architects include: Nigel Coates, Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Nils Norman, Fritz Haeg, Richard Wentworth. Connections can be drawn between the concept of mapping major cities and the poetry of Charles Olson. Like Olson's techniques of mapping this exhibition also displayed facts and figures being merged with maps and images all in the same place. In his Maximus Poems Olson combines a poetical narrative with statistics and figures relating to his hometown.

Ideas include three-dimensional shapes and structures such as using sugar cubes to build a miniature Tate Modern. The sugar cubes draw upon the area's history as before the Tate was constructed, the site was home to a sugar factory. Therefore, materials relating to area being mapped.

Nigel Coates Mixtacity (2007)

Nils Norman Bus shelter 2015 (2007)

Daughters wrapped in pervsome ribbons.

Read a bloody book every now and again -

from the potentially deadly British school

libraries with blood boiling killer rave drugs.

COVER YOUR PAPERY NECKS!

The Social Democratic Party is a myth of the near future - This is America!

And the European Union is an infectious disease - it could mutate into a

straight - haired blonde wearing bright red lipstick.

I tasted the HN51 bird flu virus covered in watermelon sugar - looking nice

and well groomed as Thatcher's willingness was transmitted from person

to person - her frizzy hair?

Chicks are supposed to be hot!

Female ambition - SHOCK HORROR - is a global pandemic!

So don't beat around the commercial bush you stunning Californian Senator.

TOPS OFF - whistles - crowd noise - it's what the people want - a fucking brilliant but pigeonholed pop group. Prog fans have been slaughtered and found washed up in a harbour - They're no risk to consumers!

You and me are mourning the death of the 1980s

so let's hold up the glowsticks and fluoro fibres and sound the rave horns!

Forget the dental assistants, secretaries and baby-holding dubiousness -

samples from the infected.

They are a one-way trap to the sexual scrap-heap.

I need a Rolling Stone - twenty six years old - a gurning, novelty rave act

with sharp lines - possibly hectoring and bitter.

A disgusting old hag like her

is found amongst the turkeys and a fast-rusting vagina - tests show that this

is a dangerous form of avian flu. But I want to put this all in a pot to make something new -

a curly, bare-faced brunette with ideas of collage and pastiche...

No lack of originality here! Let us not sell out. Let us see skin which is thinner and more wrinkle prone than men's.

CALL UPON THE CITIES OF THE RED KNIGHT and a statement from the EU commission.

GO nuts BUT go NUTS politely.

Female nudes over fifty rave spontaneity and chaos and have broken the marble ceiling.

LDN in 30

Dance tangle - free. Ready spring - form.
Dash. Move. Transfer. King's Cross.
Dangle free. Rapidly fold.
Dare.
Press. Advance. Enjoy.
Darkness thick. Growing paramount.
Darn!
Skirting. Simmering. Underground.
Damsel. Running. Until Westminster.
Danger.
Night. Wireless. Dissolve.
Dank Paddington. Recognise ground.
Dandelion. Garden. Blissful. Cake.

Dart - Open. Now stand.

Darling. Home. Perfect. 30 mins.