We had an artist who placed a large column of chalk in the River Humber. The column was supposed to have been sculpted over the weeks and months by the movement of the tides. It lasted three days. Moral of the story. Nature has a sense of humour and can recognise a pretentious sod a mile away.
If I remember rightly Antony Gormley's 'Cloud' sculpture started shedding bits of metal soon after it was installed, and had to be fixed back together. But maybe that's an urban legend.
@@saltmerchant749 More a case of she did not understand to power of the River Humber. It drains a huge part of the country. In fact for every five litres of rain that lands on England one will was through the Humber. It also flows very fast. Something like 3 miles per hour.
I went on the ship a few years back, when it was open as part of a Open House weekend. Richard Wilson along with his children were also on board to show you around. It's pretty amazing, as it has a whole artist studio and even a pool table on board. Richard seemed like a really nice guy. I love the ship, it's quirky and original.
Is _that_ what those windows are on the one side? And yah, it does look like an interesting place to be inside of. ...With permission, of course. (I'm not about to step inside a rusting hulk of a ship without it.)
Normally I would see something like this and think "pretentious nonsense" but the way Jago puts it and from what you've said I must humbly suggest that it has some merit and is worthy of the moniker "art". I may even go out of my way to see it as I am now interested and would like to witness it first hand.
"a captain who was too slow to move when the area was redeveloped"! Superb, Mr H. Simply brilliant, and entirely up to your usual high standard. Thank you, Simon T
Here in Kirkcaldy we had a “sculpture” made of a large piece of driftwood covered in bolts. Then the wood deteriorated and the whole thing was quietly removed. This was art!!!!
If they ever managed to locate the S.S. Minnow and its crew, and the ship was looking like that...let's just say Gilligan and co. would have rechristened it the S.S. Yog-Sothoth.
So I'm not the only one who remembers those cross section books from when they were younger. I think the sculpture is a cool idea however I'd be lying if I said that dangling ladder wouldn't tempt me to try and jump aboard. It reminds me of a ship museum in Michigan I saw pictures of that uses the superstructure from a scrapped ship as it's main building. Awesome video as always! Keep up the good work! Edit: I specifically remember my school library containing one with a cross section of a steam locomotive (a GNR Sterling single if memory serves) and a traction engine. I remember the traction engine because it showed that under the driver's hat contained a sandwich for lunch. Not sure if this was one of the exact books Jago was referencing but at the very least it was the same concept. If I ever come across one at a garage sale or something I'll probably pick it up. Good memories in those pages!
I am pretty sure the books are by Stephen Biesty. My brother and I had one called Incerdible Cross Sections, but I think these have been re-released and compiled after all this time, so it might be a little bit different based on the time it was published.
I remember books like that and even built a wooden kit of a clipper ship cross-section, although that was eons ago - it might still be around, unless the ex-wife has decided to throw it away
I really like it. It is interesting seeing a cross-section of a hull. I have seen a couple of people on it before. They looked very comfortable as though they planned to stay the night.
I get the piece in Holborn, but slice of life just looks a rusting old boat that’s been left there to rot. The incongruity of the Holborn piece speaks; It’s saying something. There’s nothing incongruous or juxtaposed about an old boat rusting where and old boat would rust. If Duchamp had placed a urinal in the public lavs in Camden, it’s not art: It’s just another urinal.
I really like it. Not necessarily as a piece of “high art” because that call all lead to nonsense but as a representation of the former life of the area and as something striking that just comfortably jolts you out of your everyday banality a bit. Rather reminds me of a sculpture along one of my former walking routes in Vancouver, Canada: a half scale model of an old boatshed held up in the air on stilts. The title is “The Lightshed” I believe. Quite an odd thing if you aren’t expecting it as you walk along the shore.
Congratulations: you understood some art. Seriously - it's not (necessarily) pretentious, or "nonsense". You got something out of it. It reminded you of something. That is all there is to it.
Its like someone leaving an old bedframe out at the end of your street. Its sad because you know it was used for something constructive but also you realise its time has come. Leaving it out is just encouraging the lazy to go fly-tipping so you phone the authorities to get it moved. If someone turns up and tells me this piece of fly-tipping is an art installation then I will have to call their sanity into question.
Many thanks for the video I have taken some time to consider the installation (that being the word which I understand those in the art world use to describe such sculptures) Having given this due consideration I have distilled my thoughts down into one word which epitomises my reaction thereto That word is “Irrelevant” By way of context I was the person who got round the Tate in 20 minutes even allowing for having nearly tripped over the first “installation “!
I don't know much about art, but I know what I like... And I love this. Never knew it was there. Keen to see it up close, more for a "that's how it was made" reason than anything else. To be fair, I've been known to buy things like a spray paint gun at a jumble sale because it was attractive, even when I didn't own a compressor with which to use it (and I've now learnt it doesn't work anyway, but I don't care, cos it's pretty).
I will see Jago's unrepaired shelf, ready to collapse into the river(?), and raise him my six or seven incomplete model railroad projects, which surely must amount to some type of art form. Functional Procrastinationalism perhaps.
I would dare say thought provoking and even NOSTALGIC. From a chronological perspective, the hull itself actually evokes a bye-gone era. Objects and events connected to the 1970's are approaching its 50th anniversary in concert with our current decade. The ship could represent the last gasp of non-environmentally friendly ship building. It would be like having a part of the Berlin Wall still standing some 60+ years later to remind future generations of how to avoid mistakes of the past...🤔🇵🇷🇺🇸🗽🦂😎
I like that idea of it being a sound byte of sorts. I've been going down the rabbit hole of my own local history, and there are so few reminders like these around of what came before, with the majority of such reminders being place names, which get drowned out over time themselves. A physical representation really does say a lot more. Maybe it's not "art", but I do think it is a monument that is worthy of its place.
It doesn't float, therefore it's a wreck. As it's unmanned, anyone who wanted it could claim salvage rights. Personally, I think it looks like one of those pieces of art that I just don't understand.
> I think it looks like one of those pieces of art that I just don't understand As a matter of fact, when I see something I don't understand I often remark: I don't understand a thing of it, must be art then.
It doesn't float, but it's not sunk either. So probably can't be classified as a wreck? Maybe it's a bridge as it's clear of the water. A bridge with a bridge ...
That's actually really neat. I don't know anything about the artistic merit, I just like being able to see a 3d cross-section of a ship with the parts normally hidden from view. It's like those books with cross-sections of various vehicles.
My first thought was, too thin but looks like a Woolwich ferry. So thank you for saying a redundant Sand dredger. It could have been years before I knew the truth.
Perfectly True I say! So I've read in the local Liverpool Rag The Echo that Anthony Gormley (Angel Of The North Guy) has been busy digging himself out of the Shit and Sand of Crosby Beach (Another Place). Ten Sculptures of himself had toppled over and disappeared into the Mud. So Gormley came over with an assembled team and dug himself out. He too envisions himself literally rusting to pieces in a thousand years time. With whatever scrap metal left as some form of Echo to Liverpool being the 2008 European Capital Of Culture. Anything literally has to be better than the sewage outflow pipe just a quarter of a mile up the beach.
He mentioned at the end of the Hainault video that there was a technical issue with his equipment and this was the highest resolution he could upload it at
I like the sculpture not because it is lovely but because we do not have enough of these points of interest in the capital . I think it is what old iron is really for.
A nautical phrases comes to mind, something about purchase of ancient lengths of twisted help fibres, OrLoDpe and that the ships lookouts had exceeding good binoculars
Well all I can say is I wouldn't fancy it for the living room, but admit it'd probably make for a lovely present to people one doesn't particularly like. When it comes to art these days, and to say it with the immortal words of Charles Condomine (quiet in the back), I like a tune I can hum. PS Love Wilson's intervention in Kingsway btw. Very smart.
A cannonball took away a section of the poopdeck and he hasn't repaired it yet. Partly due to having less than eight pieces of eight. Have you seen the price of Gospel Oak these days? It's an arm and a leg. Quite a rum business.
I think it was Paul Nash who used to wander around the countryside looking for what he termed found objects which he used in his art. I am not an artist but as I live next to the sea I often wander along the beaches looking for interesting things not for financial advantage but just for the fun of it. There is still a great deal of WW2 debris in this area and I have created something of a Jarman garden where found items are allowed to organically fade . This is the same for this 15 % ship as the artist knows that one day it will return to the waters that have been part log its existence for so long ......it was once a ship and now it is art .....but that begs the question What is Art?
Thanks JH for the info on the Kingsway sculpture which I've wondered about for ages, in fact I walked past it just yesterday and pondered it again. So now I know!
When one enters Wrocław in South West Poland, one sees a very large steam locomotive, appearing to be coming out of the ground and heading skywards at an approximate angle of forty five degrees. Pociąng do Nieba or Train to Heaven. It commemorates the former industry constructing rolling stock. It reminds me of the song 'Buy me a ticket to Heaven, before the Last Train is gone'.
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Remarkably, i HAVE had the Royal Navy appear most unexpectedly whilst i was awaiting an order of Cannon balls. I had thought myself the only one who had suffered such an embarrassment. . . .
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I like it as a nod towards the area's industrial history. Sadly not much survives in this bold East London experiment, except in archive film and books, and in the minds of those who are still with us. Thanks for this thoughtful delve into our recent past.
As we say in Germany: "Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?" (Is this art or can it be thrown away?) Background is that two pieces by Joseph Beuys (a corner of a room smoothed off with butter and a dirty bathtub) were so good in disguysing their artist nature that the first was removed and the second thoroughly scrubbed by cleaners.
There was a report last week of a solitary house on the Thames riverbank (Fulford Street, SE16) that was being sold off. There were once other properties either side of it, but were bombed out. It is also dipping as on skeletal foundations. Perhaps Jago could have a wander that way for a look.
For me Jago now I have got used to it . I saw it ableit from a ship first not long after it arrived . As someone who has worked the river on boats & still has an interest in boats on the River Thames & many friends from all sections of the River from as high as Oxford down to Woolwich Pier it was a shock to see it first . Rebuilt is an interesting wording for it .. Technically Richard Wilson is correct with the “ ship” on the water it does come under the PLA , It does depend on how much an eyesore it’s seen as along with the former Mersey cruise vessel Royal Iris “ Littering the waterside / bank side . It will be sad when both go for scrap .
I do like cross-sections. I saw some good ones in books before the 90s, which I'm grateful for because I stopped reading new books in the early 90s for no good reason. As for how the slice makes me feel, I want to study its details just because I'd never get a chance to look at them in a working ship.
What do I feel about it? It's a slice of reality. Rusty, painted with (probably) toxic colours and containing other unpalatable materials that will all end up in the dirty, muddy river when the thing finally disintegrates. Sigh. Together with the other poisonous trash. In Cologne there are more than 500 electric scooters that people have dumped into the river Rhine, for no reason at all, and now it's a problem getting them out again (because of currents etc.). Well, people in Cologne probably were annoyed about the tons of electric scooters blocking the pavements, but still. It's a river with muddy water, so once you throw something in it's safely out of sight. Probably you can tell I'm not exactly ecstatic about that particular slice of reality.
Hadn't seen it before but I rather like it. The cross-section gives a unique impression of how a ship is constructed internally. Being a tenth the size, it should be a tenth of the cost to maintain of a complete ship, like the sad ex-Mersey ferry seen rotting away in another Jago video. Although the rust on the superstructure suggests it won't be maintained, sadly. It's also clear of the water which should reduce corrosion, as long as the supporting piles are kept safe.
I rather like the Slice of Reality. I've always thought of it as the artist subtly sticking 'two fingers up' at the changes at that part of Greenwich for the millennium. I think it's there as a statement pointing out the reality of the Thames, and it's need for working boats etc. That's always been my take on it, but being art it's up to the viewer I suppose. The artist (Richard Wilson) has done some really interesting stuff that appeals to the mechanical enthusiast as well as those who like modern art. I'm very much the former. He's worth a 'google' even if arts not your thing.
It allows people to see the inner structure of a day to day object, in a way they might not otherwise have an opportunity to. Rather good idea, in my opinion.
I rather like the Slice of Reality. At high tide the water flows into the space at tje bottom making it look ss though it floats. I suspect a better fate for a ship than to be made into beans tins.
Glad to see this comments section reveling in its philistinism! It really is a shame that artists often have to come up with marketing jargon to secure funding for arbitrary things they think might look cool, though.
Wonderful sculpture, wonderful video! I like Tales from the Tube as much as the next subscriber, but these little ventures into architecture or, like in this case, art are like little cherries on top of the Jago cake we all know and love.
Can't honestly say it does anything for me. Many, many years ago, I visited the 𝐶𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑦 𝑆𝑎𝑟𝑘 and the 𝐺𝑖𝑝𝑠𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝐼𝑉 . I don't think I'll be making a return trip to add this thing to the list. If the ship had some quirky, historical connection to that bit of quayside, I could maybe see the point. I hope it's home to some aquatic lifeforms; that's all it's good for. Cheers for now, Dougie.
This slice represents accommodation for a ship? It has a floor space larger than many families in London have to live in, with a view. Makes me wonder if it could be maintained and turned into fancy accommodation, or if there are already enterprising squatters there.
Normally I'd instinctively skip sponsorships but I'm glad I stuck around for that one me matey, argh. Also, as soon as you said Richard Wilson I knew what was coming next.
Oh dear my taste in art is once again challenged, a song springs to mind, "There's a hole in my Rust Bucket dear Lisa, dear Lisa, there's a bl**dy great hull in my Rust Bucket, dear Lisa, dear Lisa...WELL sink it dear Henry, dear Henry, SINK IT :) ....Drew
Google Maps indicates that A Slice of Reality is "Open 24 hours a day".
Well, that's one way of putting it.
Technically correct
@@1973Washu The best kind!
Lmao.
I thought it was the HQ of a Sailing Club. Then it would be a working art sculpture.
We had an artist who placed a large column of chalk in the River Humber. The column was supposed to have been sculpted over the weeks and months by the movement of the tides. It lasted three days. Moral of the story. Nature has a sense of humour and can recognise a pretentious sod a mile away.
I bet they later claimed it was commentary on the futility of standing in the way of nature or something.
If I remember rightly Antony Gormley's 'Cloud' sculpture started shedding bits of metal soon after it was installed, and had to be fixed back together. But maybe that's an urban legend.
@@saltmerchant749 More a case of she did not understand to power of the River Humber. It drains a huge part of the country. In fact for every five litres of rain that lands on England one will was through the Humber. It also flows very fast. Something like 3 miles per hour.
@@DavidB5501 I seem to remember something about that. I think I said something about it was raining.
@@DavidB5501 I can't find anything about Quantum Cloud falling apart. Are you thinking of the terrible Thomas Heatherwick's terrible 'B of the Bang'?
This might be the first time I've ever watched an entire VPN ad.
not an internet historian viewer then?
@@Larwood. Man, I love that guy's ads.
Same
@@JagoHazzard I never would have pegged you for an internet historian viewer, and for some strange reason I love the fact that you are.
I went on the ship a few years back, when it was open as part of a Open House weekend. Richard Wilson along with his children were also on board to show you around. It's pretty amazing, as it has a whole artist studio and even a pool table on board. Richard seemed like a really nice guy. I love the ship, it's quirky and original.
Is _that_ what those windows are on the one side? And yah, it does look like an interesting place to be inside of. ...With permission, of course. (I'm not about to step inside a rusting hulk of a ship without it.)
Normally I would see something like this and think "pretentious nonsense" but the way Jago puts it and from what you've said I must humbly suggest that it has some merit and is worthy of the moniker "art". I may even go out of my way to see it as I am now interested and would like to witness it first hand.
‘I DON’T BELIEVE IT!’
Never seen it but I agree with Alex
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that must be the best pirate i've ever seen
@@anarcho-pingu So it would seem.
@@anarcho-pingu Would like to see on on numberphile for pi-rites
Blistering barnacles! . . . has to be the most mild and "family friendly" expletive ever uttered.
I like how VPN companies are completely fine with being upfront about how their product is for assisting violent criminals to avoid capture.
I thought it was the work of a notorious band of shiplifters....You can't leave anything unattended these days.
Thanks JH.
Surprised it isn't an airbnb yet.
"a captain who was too slow to move when the area was redeveloped"! Superb, Mr H. Simply brilliant, and entirely up to your usual high standard. Thank you, Simon T
Thank you!
The little ladder soflty swingin in the wind gives me the creeps.
YES! I’m glad I’m not the only one.
I was quite pleased with that shot. I thought it looked kind of sad.
@@JagoHazzard It totally does, but it also seems like it's not part of the ship-part (haha) at all, just dangling there?
An allusion to walking the plank, though a ladder to indicate suicidal ambition (it is in London, after all)?
Here in Kirkcaldy we had a “sculpture” made of a large piece of driftwood covered in bolts. Then the wood deteriorated and the whole thing was quietly removed. This was art!!!!
"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
a tale of a fateful trip,
that started from this tropic port,
aboard this tiny ship..."
If they ever managed to locate the S.S. Minnow and its crew, and the ship was looking like that...let's just say Gilligan and co. would have rechristened it the S.S. Yog-Sothoth.
So I'm not the only one who remembers those cross section books from when they were younger.
I think the sculpture is a cool idea however I'd be lying if I said that dangling ladder wouldn't tempt me to try and jump aboard. It reminds me of a ship museum in Michigan I saw pictures of that uses the superstructure from a scrapped ship as it's main building.
Awesome video as always! Keep up the good work!
Edit: I specifically remember my school library containing one with a cross section of a steam locomotive (a GNR Sterling single if memory serves) and a traction engine. I remember the traction engine because it showed that under the driver's hat contained a sandwich for lunch. Not sure if this was one of the exact books Jago was referencing but at the very least it was the same concept. If I ever come across one at a garage sale or something I'll probably pick it up. Good memories in those pages!
I am pretty sure the books are by Stephen Biesty. My brother and I had one called Incerdible Cross Sections, but I think these have been re-released and compiled after all this time, so it might be a little bit different based on the time it was published.
Still have the Man O' War one.
I remember books like that and even built a wooden kit of a clipper ship cross-section, although that was eons ago - it might still be around, unless the ex-wife has decided to throw it away
L Ashwell- Wood was one illustrator of cross sections (I think another may have been him under a different name !)
I immediately had flashbacks to a Titanic one I owned.
geez, do I feel foolish. Thought it was the remains of Thunder Child after the Martian's heat ray pierced the deck!
‘Come on Thunder Child!’
@@AtheistOrphan I would love to see to Royal Navy commission a real life HMS Thunderchild. It would be a good homage to pay to the book.
I really like it. It is interesting seeing a cross-section of a hull. I have seen a couple of people on it before. They looked very comfortable as though they planned to stay the night.
Plot twist: Slice of Reality is actually Jago's secret lair. Sponsored by Surfshark of course.
*wait really?*
Like the wreck of the Queen Elizabeth in James Bond's The man with the golden gun??
It's not very secret anymore then.
@@MarkMcCluney it's between us!
Does Jago sit in the captain's chair stroking a white cat?
A slice of reality looks like a rusting hulk to me, but my taste in art is not particularly sophisticated.
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Oh it is sophisticated, believe me,it is !!
Well, most rusting hulks are slices of life. Or maybe crumbles of death.
I get the piece in Holborn, but slice of life just looks a rusting old boat that’s been left there to rot. The incongruity of the Holborn piece speaks; It’s saying something. There’s nothing incongruous or juxtaposed about an old boat rusting where and old boat would rust.
If Duchamp had placed a urinal in the public lavs in Camden, it’s not art: It’s just another urinal.
…but is that the point? Are we supposed to see that all urinals are art…and so are all rusting old hulks? 🤔
Thanks Jago, you are the mooring rights to our 'Slice of Reality'.
I really like it. Not necessarily as a piece of “high art” because that call all lead to nonsense but as a representation of the former life of the area and as something striking that just comfortably jolts you out of your everyday banality a bit.
Rather reminds me of a sculpture along one of my former walking routes in Vancouver, Canada: a half scale model of an old boatshed held up in the air on stilts. The title is “The Lightshed” I believe. Quite an odd thing if you aren’t expecting it as you walk along the shore.
Congratulations: you understood some art.
Seriously - it's not (necessarily) pretentious, or "nonsense". You got something out of it. It reminded you of something. That is all there is to it.
Its like someone leaving an old bedframe out at the end of your street. Its sad because you know it was used for something constructive but also you realise its time has come. Leaving it out is just encouraging the lazy to go fly-tipping so you phone the authorities to get it moved. If someone turns up and tells me this piece of fly-tipping is an art installation then I will have to call their sanity into question.
Those darn ship thieves, you lock up your ship, leave for an hour, and everything but the frame is gone. Must’ve learned it from bike thieves
Some scrapman in Deptford asking a lot of awkward questions.
Amount of times I’ve walked past that and thought it was just a wreck that never got finished.
Yep - me too...
Many thanks for the video
I have taken some time to consider the installation (that being the word which I understand those in the art world use to describe such sculptures)
Having given this due consideration I have distilled my thoughts down into one word which epitomises my reaction thereto
That word is “Irrelevant”
By way of context I was the person who got round the Tate in 20 minutes even allowing for having nearly tripped over the first “installation “!
It makes me think I'm looking at something the scrap man left behind.
why I can only watch this video in 360p !?
Thanks Jago. As to what i think about that pile of scrap (note spelling) need I say more.
It's very eerie when you walk past. I lived in North Greenwich for years and never was at ease next to it.
I don't know much about art, but I know what I like...
And I love this. Never knew it was there. Keen to see it up close, more for a "that's how it was made" reason than anything else.
To be fair, I've been known to buy things like a spray paint gun at a jumble sale because it was attractive, even when I didn't own a compressor with which to use it (and I've now learnt it doesn't work anyway, but I don't care, cos it's pretty).
I will see Jago's unrepaired shelf, ready to collapse into the river(?), and raise him my six or seven incomplete model railroad projects, which surely must amount to some type of art form. Functional Procrastinationalism perhaps.
Probably my favourite whimsical VPN promotion on a RUclips video I've seen in a while, thanks for making it entertaining!
I would dare say thought provoking and even NOSTALGIC. From a chronological perspective, the hull itself actually evokes a bye-gone era. Objects and events connected to the 1970's are approaching its 50th anniversary in concert with our current decade. The ship could represent the last gasp of non-environmentally friendly ship building. It would be like having a part of the Berlin Wall still standing some 60+ years later to remind future generations of how to avoid mistakes of the past...🤔🇵🇷🇺🇸🗽🦂😎
Ok..”Blistering Barnacles” makes listening to the in-vid promo for the sponsor Totally Worth It!!
I like that idea of it being a sound byte of sorts. I've been going down the rabbit hole of my own local history, and there are so few reminders like these around of what came before, with the majority of such reminders being place names, which get drowned out over time themselves. A physical representation really does say a lot more. Maybe it's not "art", but I do think it is a monument that is worthy of its place.
It doesn't float, therefore it's a wreck. As it's unmanned, anyone who wanted it could claim salvage rights.
Personally, I think it looks like one of those pieces of art that I just don't understand.
> I think it looks like one of those pieces of art that I just don't understand
As a matter of fact, when I see something I don't understand I often remark: I don't understand a thing of it, must be art then.
@@MagereHein A bit like a Picasso, apart from being a load of scrap iron in a river.
It doesn't float, but it's not sunk either. So probably can't be classified as a wreck? Maybe it's a bridge as it's clear of the water. A bridge with a bridge ...
Oh and I like the sculpture. It's a nice reminder of the areas previous purpose and it looks like it should be there.
It's one of those peices that makes one question what really constitutes art - in that context it's valid
That's actually really neat. I don't know anything about the artistic merit, I just like being able to see a 3d cross-section of a ship with the parts normally hidden from view. It's like those books with cross-sections of various vehicles.
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When you mentioned those cross-section books, I immediately went "ooooh yeah, that's why it looks weirdly familiar!"
A cup of tea, some biscuits and a jago hazard video what more could you need for an afternoon
My first thought was, too thin but looks like a Woolwich ferry. So thank you for saying a redundant Sand dredger. It could have been years before I knew the truth.
Dang, no pirates. Another interesting story by Jago Hazard.
Perfectly True I say! So I've read in the local Liverpool Rag The Echo that Anthony Gormley (Angel Of The North Guy) has been busy digging himself out of the Shit and Sand of Crosby Beach (Another Place). Ten Sculptures of himself had toppled over and disappeared into the Mud. So Gormley came over with an assembled team and dug himself out. He too envisions himself literally rusting to pieces in a thousand years time. With whatever scrap metal left as some form of Echo to Liverpool being the 2008 European Capital Of Culture. Anything literally has to be better than the sewage outflow pipe just a quarter of a mile up the beach.
I'm sure the art lobby will tell me that I dont understand . All I understand is that its awful and I hope I never have to pass that way.
I can't get the video resolution to be higher that 360p, is that an encoding error?
Same, looks like it was uploaded in 360p
He mentioned at the end of the Hainault video that there was a technical issue with his equipment and this was the highest resolution he could upload it at
@@stevenc123 Thanks for mentioning that here, I watched the Hainault video too (think I've watched all his videos now).
I was going batty trying to get RUclips to show 720. I hope he prioritizes a fix, I really don't like going back to 2009.
Art comes in many forms but Jago can always sell it
Port of London: So how big is your ship?
The artist of A Slice of Reality: about a fifth the size of a trawler
It makes me feel cheated,bamboozled and perplexed!
Good ol Richard Wilson,I cant believe it!
I like the sculpture not because it is lovely but because we do not have enough of these points of interest in the capital . I think it is what old iron is really for.
A nautical phrases comes to mind, something about purchase of ancient lengths of twisted help fibres, OrLoDpe and that the ships lookouts had exceeding good binoculars
Well all I can say is I wouldn't fancy it for the living room, but admit it'd probably make for a lovely present to people one doesn't particularly like.
When it comes to art these days, and to say it with the immortal words of Charles Condomine (quiet in the back), I like a tune I can hum.
PS Love Wilson's intervention in Kingsway btw. Very smart.
Why would your broken shelf collapse into the river?
I'm more concerned as to why Jago's flat is open to the elements. I sure hope his Surfshark sponsorship can help him rectify this living conditions.
A cannonball took away a section of the poopdeck and he hasn't repaired it yet. Partly due to having less than eight pieces of eight. Have you seen the price of Gospel Oak these days? It's an arm and a leg. Quite a rum business.
I'm so bad at DIY that I actually altered gravity.
I think it was Paul Nash who used to wander around the countryside looking for what he termed found objects which he used in his art. I am not an artist but as I live next to the sea I often wander along the beaches looking for interesting things not for financial advantage but just for the fun of it. There is still a great deal of WW2 debris in this area and I have created something of a Jarman garden where found items are allowed to organically fade . This is the same for this 15 % ship as the artist knows that one day it will return to the waters that have been part log its existence for so long ......it was once a ship and now it is art .....but that begs the question What is Art?
A Slice Of Reality makes me feel rather “Sea Sick.” Ps. love those double “quotes.”
Thanks JH for the info on the Kingsway sculpture which I've wondered about for ages, in fact I walked past it just yesterday and pondered it again. So now I know!
When one enters Wrocław in South West Poland, one sees a very large steam locomotive, appearing to be coming out of the ground and heading skywards at an approximate angle of forty five degrees. Pociąng do Nieba or Train to Heaven. It commemorates the former industry constructing rolling stock. It reminds me of the song 'Buy me a ticket to Heaven, before the Last Train is gone'.
I agree, you actually made the advertisement interesting 😂
The sponsor must love you.
And of course, the real content was up to scratch. Keep up the great work 👍
Many thanks!
Those 'cross-section books' were popular before you were born, Young Man! I was loving them in the 1950s.
Remarkably, i HAVE had the Royal Navy appear most unexpectedly whilst i was awaiting an order of Cannon balls. I had thought myself the only one who had suffered such an embarrassment. . . .
I had assumed the front just fell off.
I just hope that your venerable sponsor is aware of your excellent presentation of VPN service... imaginative, interesting, witty, nicely paced and beautifully illustrated... so much more clever and intelligent that 99.9% of ads shovelled down our throats... well done, Jago
Even the Surfshark ad at the beginning was entertaining!
I was always partial to a Dorling Kindersley book. Just gave them a Google and they're still around!
I like it as a nod towards the area's industrial history. Sadly not much survives in this bold East London experiment, except in archive film and books, and in the minds of those who are still with us. Thanks for this thoughtful delve into our recent past.
As we say in Germany: "Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?" (Is this art or can it be thrown away?) Background is that two pieces by Joseph Beuys (a corner of a room smoothed off with butter and a dirty bathtub) were so good in disguysing their artist nature that the first was removed and the second thoroughly scrubbed by cleaners.
This should be anchored outside the Charles Dickens pub as the Artful Dredger
What I do with Surfshark is going to other countries for a day to watch their commercials.
It sucks, well it did once!
I liken this "sculpture" to most New Yorker cartoons: I get it, sort of...
Makes you wonder if fly tipping generally could be excused as art!
ARC is Amey Roadstone Concrete. So the dredging was for aggregates rather than clearing a ships passage so to speak
Makes me think 'How the hell does he get away with it?'
Jago, you really are spoiling us with evening videos more often. 👍
I must admit that there's a sinister ulterior motive - more people watch the Wednesday videos when I publish in the evening.
There was a report last week of a solitary house on the Thames riverbank (Fulford Street, SE16) that was being sold off. There were once other properties either side of it, but were bombed out. It is also dipping as on skeletal foundations. Perhaps Jago could have a wander that way for a look.
For me Jago now I have got used to it .
I saw it ableit from a ship first not long after it arrived .
As someone who has worked the river on boats & still has an interest in boats on the River Thames & many friends from all sections of the River from as high as Oxford down to Woolwich Pier it was a shock to see it first .
Rebuilt is an interesting wording for it ..
Technically Richard Wilson is correct with the “ ship” on the water it does come under the PLA , It does depend on how much an eyesore it’s seen as along with the former Mersey cruise vessel Royal Iris “ Littering the waterside / bank side .
It will be sad when both go for scrap .
I'll second the person who wrote that you put more effort into your adverts than most put into the video. Thank you.
I do like cross-sections. I saw some good ones in books before the 90s, which I'm grateful for because I stopped reading new books in the early 90s for no good reason. As for how the slice makes me feel, I want to study its details just because I'd never get a chance to look at them in a working ship.
What do I feel about it? It's a slice of reality. Rusty, painted with (probably) toxic colours and containing other unpalatable materials that will all end up in the dirty, muddy river when the thing finally disintegrates. Sigh. Together with the other poisonous trash. In Cologne there are more than 500 electric scooters that people have dumped into the river Rhine, for no reason at all, and now it's a problem getting them out again (because of currents etc.). Well, people in Cologne probably were annoyed about the tons of electric scooters blocking the pavements, but still. It's a river with muddy water, so once you throw something in it's safely out of sight.
Probably you can tell I'm not exactly ecstatic about that particular slice of reality.
This reminds me of "La Tortuga", a sculpture by the German artist Wolf Vostell. It depicts a former German BR 52 class locomotive placed upside down.
Inverted Kriegslok? I need to see that..
I think I've seen a photo of that. I should look it up.
"A Puddle of Reality."
Oil on Water
Hazelwood, Captian.
1989
Courtesy: Alaska Department of Natural Resources.
Hadn't seen it before but I rather like it. The cross-section gives a unique impression of how a ship is constructed internally. Being a tenth the size, it should be a tenth of the cost to maintain of a complete ship, like the sad ex-Mersey ferry seen rotting away in another Jago video. Although the rust on the superstructure suggests it won't be maintained, sadly. It's also clear of the water which should reduce corrosion, as long as the supporting piles are kept safe.
I rather like the Slice of Reality. I've always thought of it as the artist subtly sticking 'two fingers up' at the changes at that part of Greenwich for the millennium. I think it's there as a statement pointing out the reality of the Thames, and it's need for working boats etc. That's always been my take on it, but being art it's up to the viewer I suppose. The artist (Richard Wilson) has done some really interesting stuff that appeals to the mechanical enthusiast as well as those who like modern art. I'm very much the former. He's worth a 'google' even if arts not your thing.
It allows people to see the inner structure of a day to day object, in a way they might not otherwise have an opportunity to. Rather good idea, in my opinion.
I rather like the Slice of Reality. At high tide the water flows into the space at tje bottom making it look ss though it floats. I suspect a better fate for a ship than to be made into beans tins.
360p only? Did I time-travel back 15 years?
Often overlooked: the fascinating world of 17th century television.
It’s just a shame they wiped so many episodes.
I've spent a few New Years Eve's on this thing, knowing Richard Wilson's son. It's a little daunting crossing over in the dark...
Glad to see this comments section reveling in its philistinism! It really is a shame that artists often have to come up with marketing jargon to secure funding for arbitrary things they think might look cool, though.
Wonderful sculpture, wonderful video!
I like Tales from the Tube as much as the next subscriber, but these little ventures into architecture or, like in this case, art are like little cherries on top of the Jago cake we all know and love.
Many thanks! Sometimes I see something that's not railways and I'm too intrigued to leave it alone. I have a few videos like that on the way...
🤣 It makes me feel... Like I am not the only person who finds it hard to throw away broken things.
Habitable section, you say? I know where I'm staying for cheap if I'm ever in London.
Can't honestly say it does anything for me. Many, many years ago, I visited the 𝐶𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑦 𝑆𝑎𝑟𝑘 and the 𝐺𝑖𝑝𝑠𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝐼𝑉 . I don't think I'll be making a return trip to add this thing to the list.
If the ship had some quirky, historical connection to that bit of quayside, I could maybe see the point. I hope it's home to some aquatic lifeforms; that's all it's good for.
Cheers for now,
Dougie.
I love this slice of art, which I see it every time I cycle along the river. Thx for the interesting facts...
You know you be early to a video when it's still in 360p
It's still at 360p 14 hours later. I think Jago broke something!
You’re.
Your "subversive" is becoming as Geoff Marshall's "allotment" - is there going to be a Jago Hazzard bingo? ;)
Maybe I should put it on T-shirts or something.
This slice represents accommodation for a ship? It has a floor space larger than many families in London have to live in, with a view. Makes me wonder if it could be maintained and turned into fancy accommodation, or if there are already enterprising squatters there.
Normally I'd instinctively skip sponsorships but I'm glad I stuck around for that one me matey, argh. Also, as soon as you said Richard Wilson I knew what was coming next.
Oh dear my taste in art is once again challenged, a song springs to mind, "There's a hole in my Rust Bucket dear Lisa, dear Lisa, there's a bl**dy great hull in my Rust Bucket, dear Lisa, dear Lisa...WELL sink it dear Henry, dear Henry, SINK IT :) ....Drew
Photographed it quite a few time…. But that’s because it’s foreground interest to the background being Canary Wharf.
360P is the best I’m being offered for this video. Not sure why.
Talk about unseaworthy - now I can't unsea this sculpture!