From ABC News:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/arts/articulate/200512/s1524405.htm
Artist Simon Starling floated his Turner Prize entry
all the way down the Rhine to enter it in the
contentious UK art competition, and it's paid off,
with Shedboatshed, a weather beaten building taking
out the $58,000 prize.
After finding the shed on the banks of the Rhine,
Starling made it into a boat, paddled with it
downriver and then built it back into a shed.
Starling says his works are, "the physical
manifestation of my thought process" which must have
done the trick for the judges, who praised his work.
He transforms and reframes existing objects using a
rigorous process of research to develop his sculptural
installations.
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Okay. If this is research-art, what is art-research?
Are we doing the same thing or something similar?
What can be learned to help us in our work from
artists who use 'our' tools, such as research?
Discuss!
Cheers,
Kip
PS for those who may be interested, I have made that
actual physical move to Bournemouth successfully!
Dr Kip Jones
Reader in Health Related Social Science
Centre for Qualitative Research
Institute of Health & Community Studies
Bournemouth University United Kingdom
Website: www.kipworld.net
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