Douglas Gordon. (Preview).HAYWARD GALLERY If you look hard enough, can you find a precise point at which opposites touch and come apart--when, for example, life becomes death, present becomes past, singular becomes plural, or right becomes wrong? Gordon pursues the question with grim determination, his experiments often seeming like exercises in vivisection vivisection /vivi·sec·tion/ (viv?i-sek´shun) surgical procedures performed upon a living animal for purpose of physiologic or pathologic investigation. viv·i·sec·tion (v  v. "Douglas Gordon: What Have I Done?"--planned around a "ghosted" autobiography of the artist by novelist Andrew O'Hagan and art historian Francis McKee--threatens to take a scalpel scalpel /scal·pel/ (skal´p'l) a small surgical knife usually having a convex edge.scal·pel (sk  l p to the delicate area where "Gordon" becomes "not-Gordon." Curated by Artangel's James Lingwood (organizer of Feature Film's stunning first showing in and the Hayward's Fiona Bradley, the show comprises some dozen works from the past decade. Nov. 1-Jan. 5.
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