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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Peter Campus in conversation with Douglas Gordon
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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