300 speakers at Saatchi London ;-)

I did recognise the Tannoys pictured before I scrolled down and saw "TANNOY" written large across their bottom in the close-up pics.

AlmaataKZ:

The most weird were the strange animals, the boy with horns and the oil thing that looks like a huge seamless mirror (it is a pool of oil. With a corridor in it!).

I thought that was stunning, not least because it starts before you even get to it. Can't help thinking you've understated it slightly, it's not a pool, it's an entire room (a large office room in a former life), the lower half of the room has been lined with a steel tank, which has been filled, right to the top (to the point where the meniscus is threatening to break over the top of the tank), with used engine oil. This means, for one thing, you can smell it a mile off, I was wondering what it was before I even turned the corner into the corridor the room is at the other end of. Anyway, you go to the door of the room and a walkway extends into the room, with the top of the tank at about waist height (knee height for Big Chris...), so you can walk about 10 feet or so into the middle of the oil. It is absolutely still, so that it forms a perfect mirror, with the top half of the room reflected in the oil. It's very clever, a door at the other end of the room is ajar, the tank has been built round it, as if it just happened very suddenly. It's surprisingly tranquil, other than the smell, which starts to get to you after a while!

I thought it was excellent, is it art? No idea but it made me think. They also had Damian Hirst's The Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. It's the shark (a Thresher I think) in formaldehyde and it really does work, I walked all the way round it and as you come back around to the front you can't help but think that the shark is going to take a snap at you, even though you know the thing is dead, very clever.

indeed, the oil pool was the most impressive. first I thought it was a mirror. then Ithought - where are the seams? it is massive! then you notice it is raised (why?), then you notice there are metal walls, then you see barely visible colour interference on the surface, then you combine it with the smell and it all clicks in place!

Hardly anybody realises what it is very quickly. some people have a quick look and leave before even noticing what it actually is, but those who realise normally stay for a bit longer to look at it.

another amasing thing about it was that becasue the walls and light is white and the surface is grey the whole room is absolutely neutral in colour - the pics are color ones, not black and white, and there is hardly any colour in them. It was very weird to look at it.

good fun.