Four responses to works in the exhibition Horse Gossip: Seer (2)

Seer

11 January 2020

165 emergency personnel and 31 vehicles descended on Cologne Cathedral in the early hours of Friday morning. At around 1.10 am, a guest at a nearby hotel called the emergency 112 number to report plumes of smoke rising from one of the Cathedral’s iconic towers.

Upon investigation, it quickly became clear that the supposed smoke was actually a patch of cloud that had become stuck over the tower due to the weather.

“The cloud got stuck on the tower so it looked like smoke from below,” said a fire department spokesperson, adding that the caller was not at fault and would not have to pay for the large-scale operation.

The mission was called off about an hour later. The cloud’s whereabouts are currently unknown.

(based on: Carter, A., 2020. Major fire brigate mission at Cologne cathedral after cloud mistaken for smoke. [online] Available at: www.iamexpat.de)

Jenna Collins

Jenna Collins is a UK based artists. Her solo and collaborative work has been broadcast, exhibited and screened widely. She is the author of One, 2, 3, to be published in autumn 2021 by Joan, a new publishing project for contemporary artists’ writing.