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You Call That Art?(International Edition; THE ARTS)(Turner Prize)
Byline: Rod Nordland
Britain's Turner Prize does, and makes no apologies for it. Just don't touch that garbage on the floor.
At the press preview for Britain's prestigious and ever controversial Turner Prize, a photographer began taking pictures of his knapsack on the floor. Pretty soon a crowd of shooters had joined him. Was it or was it not part of the installation "Different Sky" by Goshka Macuga, one of the four finalists for the [pounds sterling]25,000 award? Some confusion is understandable. Macuga uses the Tate Britain's own archives to make collages of photos by the famous British surrealist Paul Nash with drawings by his less famous mistress, Eileen Agar. She also incorporates "sculptures" by Mies van der Rohe and his onetime lover that look like gallery barriers and display props. "It's about these romances being reimagined, intertwined histories," says Sophie O'Brien, one of the curators. As for the backpack the photographers were shooting? "They were only joking. There is nothing on the floor here."
The joke is on everyone at the perennial examination of contemporary British art at the Tate Britain. Outside the museum last week, a group of figurative artists--whose work never features on the Turner shortlist--held their annual protest, wearing black top hats and holding posters bearing such slogans as THE TURNER PRIZE IS CRAP. Their handouts, as well as videos of their protests, go straight into the Tate's archives, and its officials have thanked them for helping stir up publicity. "In a sense, that is the whole point of the prize: to encourage public debate," says Tate Britain director Stephen Deuchar, who chairs the Turner jury. (The winner will be announced Dec. 1.) "The prize is not there to award the most competent artist at work today, but to draw attention to what the jury considers new developments." Draw attention it does; most of the copious publicity is overwhelmingly negative, in the end-of-civilization-as-we-know-it vein. But former Turner winners like Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst, who debuted their unmade beds and pickled dead things there, have been laughing all the way to the bank.
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