Something about this screams PYNCHON to me...

[Mark Thibodeau]

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/alternative-guide-to-the-universe-exhibition-73950

Alternative Guide to the Universe explores the work of self-taught
artists and architects, fringe physicists and visionary inventors, all
of whom offer bracingly unorthodox perspectives on the world we live
in.

Eccentric and inspiring, their work re-imagines our social and
cultural conventions in ways that fearlessly depart from accepted ways
of thinking.

Contributors to the exhibition explore fictional identities and design
imaginary cities; they build healing machines and record the unseen
energy flows of our bodies. They speculate on mysteries of time and
space; create devices for time travel and communication with other
dimensions; and fashion new letter forms designed to liberate the
alphabet from the strictures of Western civilization.

Taken together, their work conjures a kind of a parallel universe
where ingenuity and inventiveness trump common sense and received
wisdom.

With special added attraction The Museum of Everything in the Hayward
Gallery Project Space -

The Museum of Everything - that world-famous wandering space for
unintentional, untrained, undiscovered, unclassifiable, unknowable,
undeniable and unforgettable artists of modern times presents Sri Nek
Chand Saini, creator of the legendary Rock Garden of Chandigarh,
India.
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