In 2003 David Kemp took his exhibition Uncertain Instruments to the Lowry, Salford. I was one of the technicians who installed it, in a challenging week enlivened by David’s playful strangeness and flagrant disregard for health and safety. Particularly demanding was a line of dancing frogs and a violin, inspired by Luigi Galvani’s discovery of animal electricity in the late 18th century.
On our last day together he gave all the techies a copy of his book Things Reconstructed. Mine was inscribed “to Bill, who knows how to make things properly”.
