Turner Prize 2012 – Taking the Mickey out of Art

Turner Prize taking the Mickey

Yes it’s that time of year again – the ageist Turner Prize awards ceremony at the home of
cliquey art cronyism: Tate Britain.

And what daredevil delights of “artistic originality” and “utter sheer brilliance” await therein this year perchance?

And why is age discrimination perfectly OK at Tate Britain when race or sex discrimination are considered almost capital offences in the arts and elsewhere these days, Ms Curtis?
No black or female artist over 50 is allowed to enter the competition. Doesn’t sound brilliant put that way does it.

PC Tate Britain
Penelope Curtis ( PC in name, doubtless scupulously PC in nature except when it comes to blatant age discrimination ) director of Tate Britain and Turner Prize head judge!

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OED Definition:
Ageism is a type of discrimination that involves prejudice against people based upon their age. Similar to racism and sexism, ageism involves holding negative stereotypes about people of different ages. The term is often applied to any type of age-based discrimination, whether it involves prejudice against children, teenagers, adults or senior-citizens.”
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The 4 under-50 entrants…….say mould creatively sterile mould.


 

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/a-bearded-lady-human-excrement-having-sex-the-woolworths-choir-and-scottish-psychiatrist-rd-laingturner-prize-2012-contenders-go-on-show-8192641.html

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2012 TP winner, Elizabeth Price for her Woolworths fire of 1979 pseud’s corner archival mix video installation…
EP2
I appropriate rhetorics of propaganda..
Don’t we all, duckie?

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Update January 2014; Damien Hirst does a Mickey spot painting to be auctioned shortly for
doubtless million$ in aid of charity. Mickey Mouse art by a Mickey Mouse artist? Fairly obvious..

Mickey Mouse
 c. D. Hirst 2014

London Dada works 619 / 620 : Turning the Art world Outside-In / Uninsideout

Location; Deutsche Bank London offices, October 2012. Inside the lavishly-appointed reception lobby reside artworks by Anish Kapoor ( mirrored stainless steel ball titled ” Turning the world upside down” (1996); and by Damien Hirst ( spot painting “Biotin-Maleimide” (1995).

DB lobby

Photo c. Bloomberg

 

Carefully-alligned photographs taken through the toughened glass pane of the lobby from a stance on the pavement outside show a real time superimposition of the works over reflections of the road and buildings opposite to the bank in Winchester Street, EC2. Thus the two works of art, worth millions of dollars between them, are effectively removed from their cloistered molly-coddled pretentious high brow environment and incorporated into an appropriated street art setting – now eminently accessible to the public. ( a kind of turning of art inside out). A unique opportunity for the discening collector to invest in the first examples of appropriation art of its kind. ( internet date stamp registered)
Concept and photographs by Michael St.Mark

 

biotin malemide st
Biotin-Maleimide Street
c. Michael St.Mark 2012

Edition of 50; purchase details
July 2015;  edition sold out – to register interest in a re-sale print email sales@londondada.com

 

turning the world outside in

Turning the World Outside In / uninsideout
c. Michael St. Mark 2012

 

 

Work 597; This Little Piggy…

tlp
This Little Piggy Went to Art Market
c. Art Axis 2012

The boy Hirst should consider himself let off lightly; nevertheless Dada does have a reputation to uphold…

picabia portrait
  Dadaist Francis Picabia’s rendition of Cezanne / Renoir /  Rembrandt,
 circa. 1920