Last one out,turn of the light. (Turner Prize 2001)

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Product:	Turner Prize 2001
Date:	10/12/01 (38 review reads)
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Advantages: Employment for museum attendants and failed art students

Disadvantages: Full of pretencious crap, More crap, And more crap

Looking at David Beckham picking up his well deserved no personality sports person of the year it couldn’t help remind me of the weekends other big winner.
Martin Creed picked up a cool twenty grand for the Turner prize for switching alight on and off at the museum. Which is exactly what happens in Beckhams head on payday.
They say if you want to make Posh n Beck’s eyes light up you should shine a torch into their ear. Two ludicrous wards have highlighted just how far we will go to be part of the crowd Previous winners of the modern art prize at the Tate have been Damien Hurst for his pickled live stock and Chris Offis for his elephant dung collages. This years winner had previous renowned “works of art”such as his screwed up ball of paper and a piece of blu-tac on a white background.
When people talk of blank pieces of papers winning an award you always think its urban legend. Yet it happened last night in London.

So what sort of people get together, put up the cash and vote for a man who has put in a timer to make the museum light go on and off. Were the pretencious gits deliberately trying to be superior and controversial to grab the headlines.
Social climber Madonna was the special guest to present the coveted prize hoping some of its avante garde establishment gloss would rub of on her.

What sort of self-important people think by saying a light going on and off is “art”it some how means they are relevant in society.
How can America and Britain dump tons of munitions on starving Afghanistan peasant’s and allow this nonsense to go ahead.
I switch my light on and off every day with noon giving me twenty grand, yet i thought of it before Mr Creed. I want my money now Madge.

The artist himself was suitably tongue in cheek philosophical about it and said %50 of the work was for him and the remaining half (presumably the off switch bit) was for the people view
ing his work to interpret.
What exactly there is to think about when a light goes on and off in an empty room that no ones thought of before beggar’s belief.

These arty types are a continuing waste of space and the more extreme and minimalist they go, the more acclaim they get from the pretencious types that turn in these circles. One chap actually said it was cutting edge art and Martin was breaking new ground and pushing the envelope.

The second and third places were almost as equally arrogant and stupid with that cliché pile of bricks coming in third. Tracey Emins bed seems almost a revelation after the last two winners.
The new Tate gallery got a hideous amount of lottery cash to convert an old factory space to fill it with a ton of crap.

I don’t think one of the exhibitors or the bulk of the visitors have ever been near a terminal. They say how successful the two hundred million project has been, but only because its free to get in!.Whos paying for the running of the place now, why the lottery players of course.
How many of those blue collar workers who buy the tickets would be impressed by a light going on and off.

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