Vauxhall

My new Neighborhood...

Vauxhall is home to an ever-increasing number of gay bars and nightclubs, such as Area, Barcode, Chariots, Crash, The Eagle, Factory, Fire, The Hoist and the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, as well as other venues often holding special events for gay clubbers, such as Club Colosseum, Hidden and Renaissance Rooms. The aforementioned Royal Vauxhall Tavern dates back to at least the late 1800s, and was for many years a traditional English music hall and cabaret venue. In recent years the building has come under constant threat of buyout and demolition from property developers, as it stands alone on a prime piece of grassland adjacent to Vauxhall railway station. However, the pub was bought in 2004 by sympathetic owners who have announced, "business as usual".
Vauxhall was originally the home of the more underground gay clubs with the arrival of Crash in the 1990s. Over the years, more clubs and gay businesses have followed Crash's lead by opening up in the railway arches underneath the main line out of Waterloo Station. The burgeoning club scene and the lure of the more trendy railway arches have made Vauxhall a prime destination for businesses to open up in, including London's only exclusively gay gym, Paris Gym, another branch of Chariots gay sauna and Barcode (sister bar venue of the same name in Soho). The area is fast earning the nickname "Vauxhall Gay Village".
Before Vauxhall earned its reputation as a gay village, it was regarded among the underground gay club scene as the place to go to avoid the more commercial nights elsewhere in central London. However, the market has become more and more lucrative with the arrival of more venues and more nights, and Vauxhall has been criticised as becoming increasingly commercial, diluting its once underground appeal. But the demise of other club venues in London, such as Turnmills, the Astoria and The Fridge, have led to the gay club scene to become more centralised in Vauxhall, turning it into an alternative destination from Soho for gay people to socialise. Vauxhall has also become colloquially known as "Voho" (a consolidation of the names Vauxhall and Soho) within the gay community, due to the emergence of Vauxhall as a gay village after Soho.

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Master's Night Outs

Master's Rules: Life is no good without fun.

After going out to a few pubs, the Master decided to embrace the nightlife.
Friday the Master got wasted in Vauxhall!
Saturday clubbing at duckie in Vauxhall!
Monday moving to VAUXHALL!!

Master Kaprow (1927-2006)

Master's Rules: A Master should have MASTERS

Western art has two avant-garde histories: one of artlike art and the other of lifelike art. They've been lumped together as parts of a succession of movements fervently committed to innovation, but they represent fundamentally contrasting philosophies of reality... artlike art holds that art is separate from life and everything else, whereas lifelike art holds that art is connected to life and everything else. In other words, there is art at service of art and art at the service of life. The maker of artlike art tends to be a specialist; the maker of lifelike art, a generalist.

Allan Kaprow

Olympic Games

Life and Art

Even though it might seem like an nice ideal, it's not a pretty picture to see someone create without interruptions. Because you have to deny other humans around you. I like the idea of letting the interruptions in through the door because it allows the world to be present in your process. It allows other human beings to be present. Allowing our work to be interrupted by a child, to answer a question, to heed an inner voice, will direct our paths to the solution we are working for. They are life and death choices. Paying heed to interruptions begins to set us on track of those creators who integrate their art into their daily life. There is no separation. Interruptions are essential. They remind us that there is more to life than our art.

Goat Island

Tate Modern: the masters' favorite museum

Tate Modern
This turbine hall, these galleries of light
Are freighted with a purpose and a power.
This bridge is like a contract, and this tower
Evidence of a legacy, a right.
Massive with possibility they stand
Open to such surprise as may exist
Deep in the pulse, the chambers of the heart;
Exacting fresh precision from the hand,
Risk in the brush, resilience in the wrist,
New thoughts to paint, new passions to impart.

James Fenton

Lovely day

And after three days the master feels in heaven.
After three days the sun finally appears.

Master's Readings: Tzara's recipe for Dadaist poem

Take one newspaper. Take one pair of scissors. Choose from that newspaper an article of the length desired for the poem you intend to write. Cut out the article. Next cut out with care each of the words forming that article. Next put them in a bag. Mix gently. Take out one by one each excision in the order they fall from the bag. Copy carefully. The poem will resemble you. Voilá, there you are, an infinitely original poet of seductive sensibility


Tristan Tzara

Bye

Master's Rules: A Master must leave his house with a few possessions

Lovely

Master's Rules: To become a master one must be ready to live without sunlight