TURNER PRIZE 2008

STUCKIST TURNER DEMO Mon 29 Sept, Tate Britain Picture of demo at the top of the page: Shelley Li, Edgeworth Johnstone, Jacqueline Jones, Daniel Pincham-Phipps, Charles Thomson, Jonathon Coudrille, Alexis Hunter. There was another demo on Turner Prize day, Mon 1 Dec, 10am - 8pm, at Tate Britain. See home page for details. Annie Zamero "the mediocre standard has almost turned me into a supporter of the Stuckists" - Richard Brooks The Sunday Times (4th item) (5.9.08) Demo in Newsweek (4.9.08) Alexis Hunter - essay and photos on her site. Article on 24hourmuseum Edgeworth Johnstone STUCKIST QUOTES "The Turner Prize is crap" Reuters (29.9.08), (also Washington Post), The Guardian, The Independent (30.9.08), The Financial Times (30.9.908) "The work is not of sufficient quality in accomplishment, innovation or originality of thought to warrant exhibition in a national museum." The Times (29.9.08), The Scotsman (30.9.08) Coxsoft was there first (29.9.08) Ben Street on Art Review (6.10.08) on traditional Stuckist demo Left to right: Elsa Dax, Annie Zamero, Jacqueline Jones, Alexis Hunter, Daniel Pincham-Phipps, Charles Thomson, Philip Absolon. Left to right: Jacqueline Jones, Annie Zamero, Daniel Pincham-Phipps, Elsa Dax, Edgeworth Johnstone, Alexis Hunter, Charles Thomson, Philip Absolon.
Sir Nicholas Serota, Tate director, takes a demo leaflet, as is customary, and promptly sprints up the steps. Video stills by Rick Friend.
Stuckist Turner Prize guides Annie Zamero and Elsa Dax.	Stuckist Turner Prize guides Shelley Li, Edgeworth Johnstone, Jacqueline Jones.
Jonathon Coudrille... engages in dialogue with... some students reading the Stuckist leaflet.
Jess Davis, Course Leader of HND/C Graphics at Gloucestershire College emailed, "We visited the Tate Britain yesterday and the topic of your protest caused much discussion amongst our art students on the coach home. We thought you might be interested to know we have decided to hold a debate between groups of students from different disciplines (graphics,photography and fine art) to further discuss the issues. We will let you know the outcome of the debate."

Design of 1" button badge for demo

Download a high res "not wanted" poster as word doc or jpeg (500KB). Turner Prize demo leaflet A6 size leaflet for the demo, showing front, middle pages and back. Click images or here for enlargements. Turner Prize nonenties The Turner Prize selects its shortlist of the country's most anodyne and forgettable young artists, one of whom they will pretend is a winner. Names briefly in the spotlight are: Mark Leckey, Cathy Wilkes, Goshka Macuga and Runa Islam. On not demonstrating against the Turner Prize Tom Jeffreys reports on Stuckists not demonstrating last year: see spoonfed. The Stuckists are demonstrating this year. Tate censors Stuckist demonstrations The Tate Turner Prize FAQs page intrepidly has a section "What about the protest groups?" and omits all mention of the Stuckist demonstrations, which are of course the best know ones. A back-handed compliment no doubt. Art Clown of the Year Award 2008 Nominations are currently being accepted for outstanding idiocy in the visual arts. The Award is announced on the same day as the Turner Prize. Email suggestions to stuckism@yahoo.co.uk with "Art Clown" in the subject box. Currently proposed: Martin "vomit" Creed for his stupid Work No 850 (people running in Tate Britain). Sample statement: "running is the opposite of being still." (Actually, being in motion is the "opposite" of being still.) Rachel Campbell-Johnston, art critic of The Times, for her interpretation of Martin "vomit" Creed's stupid Work No 850 (people running). Read it in The Times (scroll down). Sample: "Work No 850 raises myriad possibilities. Is it a simple celebration of vitality? A paean of praise to the human anatomy? A live version of classical statuary? Does Creed want to question the way that we look at art? We presume we should solemnly linger; but here is a fast-mood alternative for our busy modern age. Or maybe the piece is about our Olympic bid?" Or maybe it's about fuck all. Stephen Deuchar, director of Tate Britain for thinking the human figure is "a depiction of the human physique" (same article in The Times as above), for being Sir Nicholas Serota wearing a Groucho Marx moustache, and for chairing a Turner Prize jury which has selected exceptional lameness. Antony Gormley for saying: “Through elevation onto the plinth and removal from common ground, the body becomes a metaphor, a symbol and allows us to reflect on the diversity, vulnerability and particularity of the individual in contemporary society.” This is another way of saying he will place volunteers on a plinth in Trafalgar Square. What metaphor?, symbolic of what? The reality is that the same diversity, vulnerability and particularity can be found at a bus stop, train station or any other place occupied by the general public, which people are more likely to be aware of in every day life rather than the artificiality and contrivance of Gormley’s “art“ “work“. More info: www.antonygormley.com. Proposed by Andrew Galbraith.

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