Douglas Gordon

born 1966

Douglas Gordon, ‘Blind James (white)’ 2002
Blind James (white) 2002
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Biography

Douglas Gordon (born 20 September 1966) is a Scottish artist. He won the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

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Young British Artists (YBAs)

Artworks

Douglas Gordon, ‘Blind James (white)’ 2002

Douglas Gordon Blind James (white)

2002
T11830
Douglas Gordon, ‘A Divided Self I and A Divided Self II’ 1996

Douglas Gordon A Divided Self I and A Divided Self II

1996
AR01179
Douglas Gordon, ‘Feature Film’ 1999

Douglas Gordon Feature Film

1999
T13851
Douglas Gordon, ‘Play Dead; Real Time (this way, that way, the other way)’ 2003

Douglas Gordon Play Dead; Real Time (this way, that way, the other way)

2003
AL00339
Douglas Gordon, ‘Film Noir (Fly)’ 2008

Douglas Gordon Film Noir (Fly)

2008
AR01180
Douglas Gordon, ‘Looking Down With His Black, Black, Ee’ 2008

Douglas Gordon Looking Down With His Black, Black, Ee

2008
AR01178

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Douglas Gordon Déjà-Vu

2000
T07782
Douglas Gordon, ‘I am the curator of my own misery.’ 2010

Douglas Gordon I am the curator of my own misery.

2010
AR01181
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Film and audio

Peter Campus in conversation with Douglas Gordon

Peter Campus in conversation with Douglas Gordon Tate audio file

Features

Bruce Nauman, ‘MAPPING THE STUDIO II with color shift, flip, flop, & flip/flop (Fat Chance John Cage)’ 2001
Art Term

Time-based media

Refers to art that is dependent on technology and has a durational dimension

Philippe Parreno, ‘6.00 PM’ 2000–6
Art Term

Relational aesthetics

Term created by curator Nicholas Bourriaud in the 1990s to describe the tendency to make art based on, or inspired ...

Luc Tuymans The Walk 1993
Tate Etc

Staring into the contemporary abyss: The contemporary sublime

Simon Morley

In the early eighteenth century Joseph Addison described the notion of the sublime as something that ‘fills the mind with ...

Peter Campus Optical Sockets 1973 Installation view
Tate Etc

The expansive lens: In conversation

Peter Campus , Douglas Gordon and David A. Ross

Peter Campus was one of the first artists to explore the formal possibilities of film and video technology. Douglas Gordon ...

Paola Pivi Interesting Installation view
Tate Etc

Where the wild things are: Animals

Massimiliano Gioni

When Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping was forced to expel the beasties that inhabited his Theater of the World he ...

Tate Etc magazine issue 05 cover
Tate Etc

The museum of tomorrow

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Cedric Price said in 2003, ‘A twenty-first century museum will utilise calculated uncertainty and conscious incompleteness to produce a catalyst ...

Keith Farquhar John Lewis Partnership 2000
Tate Papers

Awkward Relations

Neil Mulholland

This paper focuses on practices that captured critical and curatorial attention in Scotland and England at the turn of this ...

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