Review: Turner Prize 2021, Bumper Pack
This week's text is a review of the 2021 Turner Prize! We've never reviewed the Turner Prize before, and i don't know why?!? it's such a Moment™️. But this year, there has been so much noise about all the nominees being collectives, and I went up to the Herbert on a press trip to go have a look round with the rest of the press pack - felt like i literally HAD to review it lmao. SO here it is, a long chunky extended cut: mini reviews of the work being presented, as well as a run down of the wider TP vibe. Also, a soft proposition for the Turner Prize to be more like the X Factor, that i'm only HALF joking about.
If you want to read the text version of this, please visit: thewhitepube.com/turnerprize2021 (//thewhitepube.com/turnerprize2021)
i also mention a few other text, linked here:
BOSS's statement about being nominated (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l...)
Juliet Jacques' article for Frieze (https://www.frieze.com/article/what-2...) , about what this year’s Turner Prize tells us about the arts after a decade of austerity.
Morgan Quaintance's eternally relevant essay, Teleology & the Turner Prize or: Utility, the New conservatism (https://conversations.e-flux.com/t/te...)
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