Over at London Bridge, the new Science Gallery at King’s College London has opened, bridging science, art and medicine with its first exhibition on the theme of Addiction; while at the Strand/Aldwych, with less of a razzmatazz, is a small, but fascinating exhibition on collaborative projects between artists and academics, from the wide spectrum of disciplines across King’s College London – ‘King’s Artists: New Thinking, New Making’.
There are collaborations with artists with the Addictions Department at King’s (and a direct link to the current exhibition at the Science Gallery), with the Department of Classics with reference to the Roman Bath at the university’s Strand campus which was more of an 18th century bordello, with the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre and the Department of Informatics, including a link back to the installation in Somerset House in the London Design Festival in September and, looking forwards, to what intelligent textiles can achieve as they respond to the instructions of their wearers.
This is an exhibition that deserves more exposure, potentially with the nearby organisations in this developing cultural quarter of London – including linking across the road with the current digital/video exhibition at 180 Strand?