I read this article about Turner Prize winner - Susan Philipsz. I expected bright and fresh opinion from Adrian Searle. No...just plain article...
I like comments more then exactly article.
Do I like winner's work? Yes. Firsly because she is woman artist and then...because I like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWeKzTDi-OA&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMsXrKUA0BQ&feature=related
"You art critics should be ashamed of yourselves – and the Turner Prize thrown in the river finally, drown the fucking thing. An "artist" with a bland voice sings a few trad songs, that she has appropriated, adding nothing except some word substitution, ('cause no one makes anything anymore, or has the skills to do so, 'cause that is un-hip) and has them played back under some bridges – get's 25,000 quid – nice work if you can spin it with some artspeak (she's obviously learnt that bit). So we get more ubiquitous sound in an already over saturated world of sonic play back – great achievement. Any solo voice or instrument sounding in the reverb created by concrete evokes "place, space, memory and presence" and all the other nonsense that art critics, who know nothing about music, blurt out. As to saying it is "disembodied" –our entire ipod music culture is disembodied – that's the wretched problem and one of the principle reasons for the decline of live music (in the sense of musician makes music, makes some sort of living). Now if she actually had stood there for 8 hours, day after day, and sung this stuff along with all the drunks, random thugs, and homeless – OK she would be worth a few bob in her hat for risk. There is no risk here, nobody is putting themselves on the line. It's insidious sonic wall paper and much more deadening than the original inventors of muzak had in mind. If this is art, then we can't get more mediocre. It's an insult to all the buskers who struggle to make a living, and even bigger insult to genuine innovative musicians like Sony Rollins who played for years in all kinds of weather on the Brooklyn Bridge creating something new."(The Guardian, comment from article Turner Prize winner Susan Philipsz: an expert view by Adrian Searle, author of comment ROSENBERG, viewed 8 December 2010)
