Douglas Gordon

born 1966

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