Here are two brilliant three minute films of highlights from last Friday’s adventures through London with Tony Kaye in a fleet of Nissan Cubes. Everything was filmed on Flip HD cameras. Read the blogs, linked here, for more information.
A perfect close to the day, before zooming off to the Cube Store in Brick Lane; Tony Kaye gives a Cube-top show atop a Nissan Cube outside the Tate. Cue startled passers-by, unfazed cabbies, bewildered Big Issue sellers and a few arched eyebrows. In the Nissan Cube, an interesting conversation ensues about how to walk…
From the comfort of a Nissan Cube straight to anarchy at Tate Britain! Here are the photos of Tony Kaye installing himself at the gallery that the Tate’s wardens of policy were loath to allow! Plus one message of hope at the entrance to the Tate…
Kabbalah, Tony claims, has given him the technology of creativity. “The Kabbalah has a very healthy attitude towards sex – it’s an important thing!” Now we’re on the way to Tate Britain in the Nissan Cube. The Tate is a mystical place for Tony. He took a homeless man called Roger off the street and…
Tony pretty much lived at the NFT in the early 80s. “This was my film school! I’d spend all day here – it was fantastic. It took me a ling time to understand the structure of a film. He was weaned on Hollywood biblical epics, so the experimental films were a steep, exciting learning curve…
The song Tony performed was written in the last five days, a gestating work in progress. He’s never done anything like this before – the song and the paintings aren’t finished. It never sounds as good as it does in one’s head, says Tony, but he thinks he’s a better artist for the process. Now…
Further proof of Tony Kaye’s status as a polymath – now he’s singing songs about immortality, using the paintings as inspiration. “Everything is written in the hell of compromise.” @nissancubeuk
In the Hospital Club, Tony’s setting up his Pop Up exhibition; paintings of lyrics and slogans with a certain feel of Basquiat about them. We are free of the @nissancubeuk fleet for a short while. Tony’s children are glad of this; they are bouncing everywhere in the gallery space laughing as their father sticks pictures…
We’re spotting similarities inside the mosque; sacred spaces vary only slightly, according to Tony. “I thought this place was the hugest place. I enjoyed the performance aspect of singing texts, I had to read the Hebrew from the scroll. I enjoyed singing to a packed house! “The quest for immortality is to be with family…