The following just popped into my inbox, and I felt driven to share it with you all because, well… because I think it SOUNDS like a wonderful idea. Naturally I think it’s a great idea because of course I have for a long time harboured this obsession with the idea that capturing somehow the moment of being 16 (or being 18, they are only numbers after all, and what counts is the ESSENCE, after all) is the absolute meaning of the Pop experience, being to do with the collision of the senses such a time inevitably brings. I’m dead jealous also that I didn’t think of doing the same thing myself first. Grrrr. Anyway, here’s the data:

Ella Johnston
A new art installation: 'Summer in Storage'.

29th November – 25th December, Central London.


'The sun on your back, the wind in your hair, you’re 18 forever, and summer’s only just begun'.

In a celebration of youth and freedom, the keepsakes of Emma Johnson’s teenage summers have been immortalised in a secret location near the Barbican underground station, London.

You are invited to view the display, and to reminisce about your own lost youth.

'Summer in Storage' is a site-specific installation contrasting a cliched characterisation of summer (sun, open air, freedom, holiday, leisure and fun) with an opposing memory of youthful frustration, exam tensions and boredom. In a claustrophobic and dingy setting, a series of small canvases represent pages of revision notes filled only with doodles of flowers. A duvet and pillow fill a space which is too small to sleep in, set texts are discarded, the noise of static fills the cold air. In the middle of November, this side of summer is forgotten.

Please email info@sloganeers.net for details of location.



posted by duke harringay at 9:23 PM