Mothership Connection:Lauren Halsey @ Serpentine South.

"Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip and come on up to the mothership" - Mothership Connection (Star Child), Parliament

The Los Angeles artist is inspired by the funk, the whole funk, and nothin' but the funk. Well, she is inspired by some other things too but funk is where she's at and for her Serpentine South show, Emajendat, she has converted the gallery space into some kind of futuristic acidic vision of a funky Los Angeles. Which is quite an achievement on a grey drizzly day in London.

Halsey, in her own words, became a hardcore 'Funkateer' as a teenager and now, as an adult, she's dreaming up future possibilities that revolve around community building, equity, love, and neighbourhood pride. To her:- "all things funk".

On entering the gallery a friendly attendant tells you which direction you have to walk in and you find yourself on a journey into Halsey's imagined alternative LA. The neon signs advertising 'positive energy', playgrounds, rims, and braids look familiar enough. The faces staring out of little Stonehenge style rocks less so, and the pyramids and other unidentifiable stuff seem quite otherwordly, a little uncanny.

Which is, surely, the intention. Halsey's rare in her city in that she likes to walk round it rather than drive everywhere and on her perambulations she often repurposes things that she finds, things that the everyday folk leave behind.

So there's basketball players, Tupac Shakur, toy cars, giant hands, pharoah heads, and even - I think - a self-portrait of Halsey herself at work. None of it has, it seems, any great meaning. Most of it is lots of fun. And that's fine. Sometimes art can just be fun. Lauren Halsey's art is fun. Definitely the better of the two exhibitions I attended today.