Jeremy Deller

Okay, so i have to get some of this research in. Somewhere. I'm finding it hard to wade through the great subjects i want to explore for this work, and actually start somewhere. This morning Jeremy Deller's 'Procession' entered my head, and so I'm starting here.

Deller won the Turner Prize in 2004 for the piece 'Memory Bucket'. I'm not too up to date or well informed on the Turner Prize, but i was quite surprised that his work won. I really enjoy the unfinished and 'in process' nature of the 'Acid Brass' mind map diagram, and how 'Memory Bucket has a beautifully impermanent quality to it. But it is these qualities that I have always expected to detract from work, in terms of how it's received in the art world. Although i began to learn that this is not the rule, from the last project, and talking to Simon. -For example, Keith Tyson's incredible walls of working through thinking, are highly praised. ...I wonder if there are many women artists who work this way... And if they did, are they received the same way? Or are all great thinkers considered to be male still? Julia's feminism elective has affected my brain a lot........


ANYWAY:





Look look look! This is the map.

http://www.jeremydeller.org/acidbrass/map.htm



This is the Tateshot of 'Procession', an event that Deller organised. It was essetially a street procession aimed to incoporate and bring together all aspects of Manchester.

Procession will last approximately 1 hour and will start at the Liverpool Road end of Deansgate. Expect the noise, the colour and the excitement of a typical parade – but with a Mancunian twist. Here are just a few of the things to look out for:

From Bolton - the Blackout Crew with their latest track, specially composed for a fleet of modified cars

From Trafford – a centenary celebration of Stretford’s extraordinary Rose Queens

From Tameside – the Stalybridge brass band marking their 200th anniversary with a commemoration of the Peterloo Massacre

From Oldham – a musical tribute to the world’s first fish and chip shop

From Bury – the legendary Valerie’s market café recreated in all its glory

And from all over Greater Manchester – the largest ever gathering of local sporting mascots

‘I love processions – as humans, it’s almost part of our DNA to be instinctively attracted to big public events that bring us together. A good procession is in itself a public artwork: part self-portrait and part alternative reality.’
Jeremy Deller

from
http://www.mif.co.uk/events/procession-2/




From:

http://www.jeremydeller.org

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