Cathy's Art Diary

Eclectic exhibition at Somerset House for this bienniale design show. The theme of the show was international collaboration and all the projects, presented by countries, organisations and universities, highlighted global issues or work with other organisations around the world.   Other themes which seemed to grow out of the exhibits were response to crisis, aging and weaving as a metaphor. I very quickly became annoyed by the convoluted commentaries on some of the exhibits, many of which were verging on incomprehensible. An example would be "living collective of initiatives". I understand that some may have originally by people for whom English isn’t the first language but could someone please read them for sense plus cut out the academic, philosophical twaddle. Just tell me the problem you are addressing and its solution in simple language. That said there were some fascinating displays. I loved these sheep stools from the Japanese room on rural life. Also a chair des