Excrement orgies go on display at Turner Prize show
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Drawings of human excrement having sex have gone on show at Tate Britain — alongside performances by a bearded female artist who lives in a nudist colony and changed her name to Spartacus.
The works are featured in this year's Turner Prize exhibition and are by the four artists who have been shortlisted for the controversial art prize.
Northumberland-born Paul Noble, 48, has displayed his drawings of a fictional city, Nobson Newton, whose natives are living excrement and in some scenes engage in orgies.
Spartacus Chetwynd, 38, who lives and works in a south London nudist colony, has choreographed two live performances, one of them featuring herself.
In one, members of the audience are invited to lie down prostrate before an "oracle" puppet who whispers predictions such as "you face a loveless future", "beware of Dave", "you will lose your mobile phone next week" and "84% of people have more sense than you".
Chetwynd — who changed her name from Lali in tribute to the Roman gladiator on her 33rd birthday — also takes part in a performance of a biblical story in which the crowd, when offered a choice to have either Jesus or Barabbas released from custody, was persuaded to save the criminal.
Chetwynd, whose work addresses ideas of democracy, was wearing a beard to the preview of the exhibition.
"It's meant to be a special evening for me. I haven't had time to find a dress so I thought if I put a beard on with an old dress it will be scintillating combination," she said.
The two other artists shortlisted are Glaswegian Luke Fowler, 34, who shows a film about Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing, and Londoner Elizabeth Price, 45, a former member of 1980s pop band Talulah Gosh, whose film The Woolworths Choir Of 1979 features a blaze that took place in the Manchester store.
The Turner Prize, which goes to an artist under 50, born, living or working in Britain for an outstanding exhibition of their work, will be awarded at Tate Britain on Dec 3.
The exhibition runs until Jan 6.
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