Full of sound and fury signifying nothing

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Richard Meier's perfectly composed models seemed to draw up their skirts in horror as chaos reigned around them at the Louise T Blouin Institute in west London last week.

The occasion was an evening 'happening' curated by Matthew Lee Knowles, entitled 'the nothing and the nothingness'. What was extraordinary, in the seething mass of events disturbing the usual considered calm of the institute, was just how busy and loud 'nothing' can be.

• Author: Ruth Slavid..

In no particular order, the evening had the following components:

* People with red-painted faces, entangled with red string, and yelling through paper cup walkie talkies
* A pregnant bride and groom, playing the drums
* A man making brightly coloured origami birds on the floor
* A burly man in a long orange dress and a multi-coloured wig doing a striptease
* Nice banana cake
* A man at a table reading aloud from 'lectures on nothing'
* A clown chasing an excited little girl
* Cacophony
*Tiny handmade flicker books on chairs
* A man lying down dressed as a donkey
* Two men in their underwear doing weird dream/ fight dances
* An ashen-faced woman in white sitting on the floor in a black circle of words occasionally throwing a dice
* A man playing a cello that made no noise
* People rollerblading backwards
* A woman dancing up to and at you without acknowledging that you are there
* A film of a saucepan not being filled at a tap, put on the gas and an empty white plate.