2013 Turner Prize – and a thieving dim bulb in Derry

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 Work 624
 Tate Britain Toilet Installation no 1 – a Judge’s Choice.
  c. Art Axis 2012
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 London Dada’s ‘earlybird entry’ to the 2013 Turner Prize – from 2012
 ( Original post Link-back here )

And one year on, one of the 4 shortlisted 2013 TP entries in Derry, Londonderry
 – David Shrigley’s ludicrous 7′ plastic model male model that alternately winks
and .. wait for it… pisses into a bucket.

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” Don’t be a dim bulb” ( collage)
Kurt Schwitters, 1947

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Work No. 680; Welcome to the Machine

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Welcome to the Machine 1
© Michael St.Mark 2013

Kings Cross Underground entrance/exit escalator to the mainline station
In contrast to previous work no. 679.
In line with the seemingly inexorable sterile sanitization and regimentation of
21st C. UK society.

 

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Work No. 679; The dead footplatemens union

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The Dead Footplatemens Union
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

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A section of highly worn metal staircase within a dated passenger tunnel at Sloane Square underground
station. Constructed during the very early 20th C and subject to constant daily foot traffic that must now
total billions of individual footfalls; much of the metal plate wear & tear apparent today doubtless caused
by long dead tourists and commuters scurrying to board trains or exit the station.
Interestingly, the plate erosion is focused on six specific areas, forming a kind of continually evolving
unconscious artwork – the two patches of wear in the foreground mainly from descending feet impacting
at speed,  the two further on from where feet are shuffled and re-positioned ready to descend the next
flight… and the two smaller eroded areas on the top step of the far staircase likely caused by the more
precise steps of ascending passengers.
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The compacted aggregate of memory stretching over decades, of a technologically and culturally
defunct era is palpable in the brief silences between trains and travellers…

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