HALL PLACE, Bexley

CENSORED

Two elements of a Vanilla Beer installation at Hall Place, Bexley, were removed by the Director without consultation with either the artist or the arts team for the project. This left an incomplete and vandalised piece of work with Vanilla Beer's name attached. No explanation was offered.

Vanilla has long had a thing about interactive art. The Bexley show can now be regarded as a performance piece, thanks to the unilateral interference of this Director who has earned a place in the same sentence as the Japanese students jumping around on Tracey Emin's bed. We think he was spooked. We might even credit a ghost or two. One of Nil's students at the University of Greenwich made the local papers with his spook metric machines and their interesting blips. We don't know, but if it's a matter of taste and appropriate fare for public consumption, we look forward to a similar edit of the menu in the Hall Place café.

Vanilla takes students' questions on the Hall Place fiasco.
Vanilla's pre-installation report.
Vanilla Hall Place topiary studies.


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