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About Michael St.Mark

Conceptual / experimental multi-discipline artist, writer and photographer. Art influencer and founder of London Dada, recalling Dada's original aims and principles as envisaged by it's founder Hugo Ball. Eschews the often politically-motivated taboo on expressions of critical thought within art. Admiring Duchamp in going beyond the seemingly endless infatuation with the ' pretty picture' retinal and instead refusing to accept the standards and practices of an established corrupt art world and creatively stifling conventions that are still considered essential to attain fame and financial success: refusing to repeat himself or to develop one recognizable style to placate the commercial needs of the market.

Turner Prize 2005

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Winner;
Shedboatshed” by carpenter / artist Simon Starling
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That was about as shocking as it got in a year when the £25,000 prize has generated barely a ripple of controversy. Even a painter, Gillian Carnegie, installed as a favourite for the prize by the bookmakers, was included.

The Tate’s selection panel, having scoured the country over the past dozen years to find transvestite potters, dirty beds and sliced cows, was possibly too exhausted to whip up headlines again.

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Definitive expose of the TP, in the year after London Dada’s victory in pressuring the committee into abandoning its 23 year tradition of age discrimination against entrants

Work 145; When Dada Ruled the World


When dAdA Ruled the World
c. 2003 Michael St.Mark

  • 2017 reinstated post from blog.co.uk after closure and destruction of an entire online community and a part of art history by its cyber vandal owner ” Blog Forever” Luca Ascani