Parker Cars Magazine: Issue 4
All things great about London
All things great about London
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jork exhibition<br />
Visitors to the Bjork<br />
Digital exhibition<br />
engage with the artist<br />
through virtual reality<br />
headsets.<br />
warbling on a remote Icelandic beach. Another<br />
has her transformed into a giant digital moth. Most<br />
arresting (disturbing even) of all is Mouth Mantra<br />
where you enter her very mouth (virtually, of<br />
course), seeing her oral organs close-up as she sings.<br />
Even Bjork’s dentist doesn’t get this much detail.<br />
“I build bridges between tech and the human<br />
things we do,” the 50-year-old told The Guardian<br />
newspaper in advance of the exhibition. “Are we<br />
going to be lazy or let [technology] stimulate us to<br />
be expressive? Are we going to create or destroy?<br />
Doesn’t matter if it was fire, the knife, the gun,<br />
the atom bomb, tech, or whatever. These things<br />
don’t come with humanity or a soul. We have to<br />
put it there.”<br />
Like most of the Icelander’s work, it’s slightly<br />
bonkers, often bewildering, and highly original.<br />
Bjork Digital is at Somerset House, WC2R 1LA,<br />
until Oct 23, £15.<br />
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