30 Dec 2018, Φ Freud Museum London

20 Maresfield Gardens, London NW3 5SX, www.freud.org.uk/

„This was the final home of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and his daughter Anna Freud, a pioneering child psychoanalyst … The Freud family came to England as refugees, having escaped Austria following the Nazi annexation in March 1938. Freud spent the last year of his life here, and it remained the family home until Anna’s death in 1982.”

2018_12_30 London (UK): Freud Museum

2018_12_30 London (UK): Freud Museum

Context: 3 Jan 2019, Φ Sojourn in London, 27 Dec 2018 – 3 Jan 2019

30 Dec 2018, Φ Wellcome Collection and Trust

Wellcome Collection, https://wellcomecollection.org/

2018_12_30 London (UK): Wellcome Collection

2018_12_30 London (UK): Wellcome Collection

“Wellcome Collection: life, death and everything in between” …  “Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we all think and feel about health. Through exhibitions, collections, live programming, digital, broadcast and publishing, we create opportunities for people to think deeply about the connections between science, medicine, life and art.”

Permanent exhibition: “Medicine now”, https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/WeobUyQAAKdwjbEO

“After 11 years, this exhibition will close in April 2019.”

Wellcome Trust, https://wellcome.ac.uk/

• „Wellcome exists to improve health by helping great ideas to thrive. We support researchers, we take on big health challenges, we campaign for better science, and we help everyone get involved with science and health research”
• “We value breadth and depth in the activities we support. We remain true to the vision and values of our founder, Sir Henry Wellcome, a medical entrepreneur, collector and philanthropist…“
• “Our funding supports over 14,000 people in more than 70 countries.”

Context: 3 Jan 2019, Φ Sojourn in London, 27 Dec 2018 – 3 Jan 2019

29 Dec 2018, Tate Modern incl. Ice Watch (Eliasson & Rosing)

Tate Modern: “International modern and contemporary art”, www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern

“… is Britain’s national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group (together with Tate Britain … and Tate Online) … based in the former Bankside Power Station … holds the national collection of British art from 1900 to the present day and international modern and contemporary art … one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary art in the world… Prior to redevelopment, the power station was a 200 m … long, steel framed, brick clad building with a substantial central chimney standing 99 m … The structure was roughly divided into three main areas … – the huge main Turbine Hall in the centre, with the boiler house to the north and the switch house to the south”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate_Modern

2018_12_29 London (UK): Ice Watch

2018_12_29 London (UK): From Tate Modern

Olafur Eliasson & Minik Rosing: Ice Watch

“A public artwork … On the occasion of COP24 in Katowice, Poland, and the third anniversary of the Paris Agreement … Bankside outside Tate Modern – City of London outside Bloomberg’s European headquarters – 11 December 2018 until the ice has melted”, http://icewatchlondon.com/

Context: 3 Jan 2019, Φ Sojourn in London, 27 Dec 2018 – 3 Jan 2019

29 Dec 2018, Trafalgar Square: The Fourth Plinth

“The Fourth plinth is the northwest plinth in Trafalgar Square … originally intended to hold an equestrian statue of William IV, but remained bare due to insufficient funds. For over 150 years the fate of the plinth was debated; in 1998, the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce … commissioned three contemporary sculptures to be displayed temporarily on the plinth … In 2003, the ownership of Trafalgar Square was transferred … to the Mayor of London … this marked the beginning of the Mayor of London’s Fourth Plinth Commission … Under the stewardship of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group, the following artworks have been commissioned:

• 5 March 2015 – 6 September 2016, Hans Haacke: Gift Horse. Depicts a skeletal, riderless horse…
• 29 September 2016 – 6 March 2018^, David Shrigley: Really Good. A bronze sculpture of a human hand in a thumbs-up gesture, with the thumb greatly elongated…
• 28 March 2018 – Present, Michael Rakowitz: The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist. A recreation of a sculpture of a lamassu (a winged bull and protective deity) that stood at the entrance to Nergal Gate of Nineveh from 700 B.C. It was destroyed in 2015 by Isis [Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant], along with other artefacts in the Mosul Museum. Rakowitz’s recreation is made of empty Iraqi date syrup cans, representing the destruction of the country’s date industry
• Planned for 2020, Heather Phillipson: The End. A dollop of whipped cream with an assortment of toppings: a cherry, a fly, and a drone. The drone will film passers-by and display them on an attached screen”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_plinth,_Trafalgar_Square

Context: 3 Jan 2019, Φ Sojourn in London, 27 Dec 2018 – 3 Jan 2019