List of other Stuckist demos here TURNER PRIZE
DEMO 2001 There was a plain-clothes Stuckist demo on 6 Nov 2001 at the Press Launch of the Turner Prize at Tate Britain, and a Stuckist demo in clown costume on 9 Dec 2001 on the prize-giving day. "In certain
respects the Turner Prize never changes: art fleetingly makes the
front pages; the dreary Stuckists protest outside the Tate and the
winner gets a cheque for 20 grand."
The clown demo featured a cardboard cut-out of Tracey Emin. In the evening, the Stuckists created their own Turner piece of art by flashing torches on and off. The Turner winner was Martin Creed, who turned a light on and off. This demo was syndicated for worldwide TV coverage by Reuters. Ekow Eshun said in Shock Tactics on the BBC site, "if scandal equated directly to success then this year's winners should probably be the Stuckists, the ragged band of artist malcontents who've turned their annual placard-waving anti-Turner protest outside the Tate into a kind of art event of their own that now generates press attention from around the world." Turner Prize 2001 in Pictures on BBC News Online shows the nominees and the Stuckist demo. The demo was reported in The New York Times (14.12.01). The Art Clown of the Year Award 2001 was won by Sir Nicholas Serota. Other nominees were Charles Saatchi (last year's winner), Norman Rosenthal and Sarah Kent. Jacqueline's eggs for Martin
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