Beck's Futures 2006 - Can't Wait for Tomorrow

A busy Sunday started with a visit to the ICA to see this years Beck's Futures http://www.becksfutures.co.uk/futures/ exhibition. Its usually an interesting exhibition though a somewhat mixed one. This year the award will have three exhibitions but I won't be able to visit Glasgow and Bristol to compare and contrast.
So London displayed all thirteen shortlisted artists with work ranging from a display of Bedwyr Williams' size 13 shoes, through video, painting, two walls and Jamie Slovin's archive of post-punk German cult band Lustfaust memorabilia.
My favourites were Matt Stokes' video (Long After Tonight) of a Northern Soul night in a Dundee church (contrasting the artful motion of young dancers with the incongruent beauty of the church) and Seb Patane's installation (Absolute Korperkontrolle) which links a photograph from the archive of occultist (and mountaineer) Aleister Crowley, with another picture of a couple at a dance marathon, with a video of two dancers in mountaineering costume and an electronic music soundtrack. I was also intrigued by Daniel Sinsel who presented work that was exquisite and intimate and made me want to see more.
Check out the website above, and you can even vote for your choice!