That Morton is the artist responsible for the infamous Eastlink Hotel highway installation – bleakly funny, original, clever, strange, alluring – says half-of-everything about exciting artistic energy wasted by the Beckett estate's conservatism.
Nowadays, rural crafts are all the rage, even as some pavilions look more like cool, modern, hotel-lobby installations.
His sculptures and performances have been featured at MoMA PS1 and at Envoy Enterprises, and at the next Art Basel Miami Beach he will be transforming Lords hotel into an installation.
This 185-room boutique hotel has art installations in the lobby and minimalist chic bedrooms.
Spaces relevant to the story of Paul Smith, designer, are recreated throughout the exhibition: the first Nottingham shop, the famous Paris hotel room/showroom, the installation-art-like visual cacophony of his recreated office space.
Combine these distractions with the fact that traffic continued to roll past several of Lumiere's prime locations – road closures in Northern Ireland are not, I was told, a straightforward business – and I was mourning the lack of magic before I'd even set off from my hotel; the 17 installations that comprised Lumiere were going to be quite lost in all this dazzle.
This isn't too different from Tesla's Destination Charging program, which offers chargers at restaurants, resorts, and hotels with free installation, as long as property owners cover the cost of electricity.
"Sleep in a work of art" is the experience promised there, and because the hotel doubles as an installation art gallery, it delivers exactly that.
Last year, for example, the Garden City Hotel made possible the installation of Lindbergh's first aircraft, a JN-4 Jenny, at the Cradle of Aviation Museum.
