Media Coverage

Our latest show at Kinetica is no. 1 choice in TimeOut’s Around Town this week. If you’re in London, the local news slot on the BBC should have coverage today (Sunday) at 7:35pm. We were also on BBC Radio London’s Breakfast Show yesterday – you can ‘listen again‘ (until Sun 15th April). Leave a message in the comments if you spot anything else.

Kinetica Exhibition Opens Today

There was a fantastic opening party for the CMT and Ride of Life Exhibition at Kinetica last night. Guests were enthralled by the range of automata old and new, it was a great launch for the show. Guest Chris O’Shea took some great pictures and as he says:-
‘I can safely say that this one of the most beautiful, playful and magical exhibitions I’ve been to for a long time. My photos don’t do it justice, you need to go and see them moving in real life. It has a real feeling of British crazy backyard inventor to it, mixed with detailed tiny models to large scale automata.’

One of the most exciting pieces is Will Jackson’s Robo Thespian (pictured) – Photo: Chris O’Shea.

Mechanics Alive!! tours to South Korea

Our travelling exhibition, Mechanics Alive!! will open at the Seongnam Arts Center in Seongnam near Seoul, South Korea on April 12th.
757 Yatap-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do.
It can be seen here until 19th May 2007.

The exhibition will then move to Chungmu Art Hall
131,Heungin-Dong, Jung-gu, Seoul, Korea 100-880
(23rd May until 30th June 2007).
There will be a series of workshops for children and adults throughout the exhibitions.

This first ever Korean tour has been organised by our colleague Min Kyoung Cho, at UTOSPACE. Cho has been a tremendous fan of CMT since she first saw our exhibition at the Oxo Gallery in London 3 years ago. Cho’s current exhibition Cookie Architecture is a great favourite!

Jeppe Hein’s Rolling Ball kinetic sculpture

Here is something else to see on your upcoming visit to London. Danish artist Jeppe Hein has created a site-specific installation for The Curve at The Barbican.
The piece is called ‘Distance’ and you can see it working here.

Visitors trigger the rolling balls by entering the space, so the experience varies depending on how busy it is. If you can visit when it is quiet you will be able to follow your own ball from start to finish. Good fun.

Ron Fuller restores Adam and Eve Pub

Ron Fuller is currently restoring the Adam and Eve pubic bar, the only remaining complete scene from the Ride of Life. The bar will be operational at our exhibition at Kinetica from 6th April to 5th May.

To give you a flavour of the completed scene, here are some of Ron’s words from 1989.

 
Welcome to the pubic bar of the Adam & Eve English Pub

Your average ‘Soup in the Basket’, gas ‘ever-burn fake log fie’, road house. Smells of stale cider, cigar buffs, & unemptied spittoons. The landlord (Adam) & the landlady (Eve) are in their ‘birthday’ suits – the landlord pulls pints (0.5lt) of Black Shaft English lager and wipes the drips off the counter. The landlady smokes, drinks, waves, & winks. The ‘Viking’ motor bike fruit machine man is the snake in the grass – the beast that bites. To be decent Eve’s breasts are hidden by the cider pumps, but to tell you they are still there they pulse with light. the whole scene pulses, throbs, goes up and down. in and out -
FERTILITY + CREATION. We can’t wait….