In 2003 David Kemp took his exhibition Uncertain Instruments to the Lowry, Salford. I was one of the technicians who installed it, in a challenging week enlivened by David’s playful strangeness and flagrant disregard for health and safety. Particularly demanding was a line of dancing frogs and a violin, inspired by Luigi Galvani’s discovery of animal electricity in the late 18th century.On our last day together he gave all the techies a copy of his book Things Reconstructed. Mine was inscribed “to Bill, who knows how to make things properly”. Continue reading...
In 2003 David Kemp took his exhibition Uncertain Instruments to the Lowry, Salford. I was one of the technicians who installed it, in a challenging week enlivened by David’s playful strangeness and flagrant disregard for health and safety. Particularly demanding was a line of dancing frogs and a violin, inspired by Luigi Galvani’s discovery of animal electricity in the late 18th century.
On our last day together he gave all the techies a copy of his book Things Reconstructed. Mine was inscribed “to Bill, who knows how to make things properly”.
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