Artangel 500s

Writers respond to Artangel projects
Volume 2: Autumn / Winter 2010

Eerily silent: the City of London at the weekend. Photograph by Julian Abrams

7 December 2010
P.A. Skantze at St Olave's, London Bridge and Change Alley
"Years of fable and myth make us wonder if she is singing from the bottom of the river."
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23 November 2010
Madrigals, tears and high capital: Esther Leslie visits SURROUND ME
"The songs return to us a tangible city of Milk, Bread, Corn, Pudding, Poultry."
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16 November 2010
Steven Connor takes an anticyclone-shaped walk through the City of London
"At a minute to noon, as I arrive, the moving staircase of Weep, O Mine Eyes is folding to its close. Eight minutes then to wait in the nameless square above Moorgate, sitting at the hub of the wind that skirls round its perimeter."
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9 November 2010
Detroit-based author Toby Barlow on Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead
"Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead trailer began its scheduled journey at 2:05 pm on September 25. On the trailer sat a large recreation of Mr. Kelly’s childhood house. It planned to travel down Detroit’s Woodward Avenue and take a right onto Michigan Avenue."
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2 November 2010
Rachel Lichtenstein shelters from the rain on Milk Street
"Last Sunday, a few hours before the tube strike began, I made my way, through deserted streets, to Milk Street; a nondescript, urban passageway in the financial district, circled on my Artangel map as the site of Lachrimae."
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26 October 2010
Will Hodgkinson, author and journalist, visits SURROUND ME
"My wife NJ, our daughter Pearl and myself circumnavigated the Highwalk twice before Pearl said: “I can hear something”. It was Weep, O Mine Eyes, John Bennett’s madrigal from 1599 written with the aim of imitating the voices of the angels."
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