A few weeks ago The Observer ran a feature interviewing each of the past winners of the Turner prize. Antony Gormley was quoted as saying that winning the prize is "like being a Holocaust survivor."
'Event Horizon' is a play on the idea of the intellectual or artistic 'heavyweight', using MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) as it's main motif. It is also a reaction against claims made by artists, such as this one, that they seem to think that, because they are artists, or claim to be so, it somehow gives validation to making asinine attempts at controversial pseudo-intellectual soundbites.I cannot possibly begin to imagine how winning £20,000 is in any way akin to being illegally starved, beaten, stripped, imprisoned, enslaved, abused, raped, tortured and killed.
Maybe I'm missing something.
Maybe I should read more Bourriaud.
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