Douglas Gordon
born 1966
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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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Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
Douglas Gordon A Divided Self I and A Divided Self II
1996
Douglas Gordon Blind James (white)
2002
Douglas Gordon Play Dead; Real Time (this way, that way, the other way)
2003
Douglas Gordon Feature Film
1999
Douglas Gordon Film Noir (Fly)
2008
Douglas Gordon Looking Down With His Black, Black, Ee
2008
Douglas Gordon I am the curator of my own misery.
2010
Douglas Gordon Déjà-Vu
2000
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Peter Campus in conversation with Douglas Gordon
Peter Campus in conversation with Douglas Gordon Tate audio file
Features
Art Term
Time-based media
Refers to art that is dependent on technology and has a durational dimension
Art Term
Relational aesthetics
Term created by curator Nicholas Bourriaud in the 1990s to describe the tendency to make art based on, or inspired ...
Tate Etc
Staring into the contemporary abyss: The contemporary sublime
In the early eighteenth century Joseph Addison described the notion of the sublime as something that ‘fills the mind with ...
Tate Etc
The expansive lens: In conversation
Peter Campus was one of the first artists to explore the formal possibilities of film and video technology. Douglas Gordon ...
Tate Etc
Where the wild things are: Animals
When Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping was forced to expel the beasties that inhabited his Theater of the World he ...
Tate Etc
The museum of tomorrow
Cedric Price said in 2003, ‘A twenty-first century museum will utilise calculated uncertainty and conscious incompleteness to produce a catalyst ...
Tate Papers
Awkward Relations
This paper focuses on practices that captured critical and curatorial attention in Scotland and England at the turn of this ...
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