{"id":655,"date":"2008-06-30T14:39:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T21:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/06\/fine-art-at-30-feet-per-second\/"},"modified":"2008-06-30T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T21:46:08","slug":"fine-art-at-30-feet-per-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/30\/fine-art-at-30-feet-per-second\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine Art At 30 Feet Per Second"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Guardian UK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Tate exhibit keeps on running<\/h1>\n

In Pictures: See a gallery of the work here<\/a><\/font>\u00a0

Charlotte Higgins, arts correspondent,\u00a0Monday June 30, 2008
guardian.co.uk<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0

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A volunteer runs through Tate Britain as part of Richard Creen’s Work No 850. Photo: Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n

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Martin Creed cheered up the Turner prize no end seven years ago, when he won the award for a piece that consisted of a gallery’s lights being switched on and off.<\/p>\n

Now the artist is back with a new work that is likely to prove just as irritating to traditionalists.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Creed’s Work No 850 is a single athlete running at top speed through the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain – every 30 seconds, all day, every day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Visitors to Tate Britain will see a runner streak past them, dashing “as if their life depended on it” according to the artist’s instructions. After a runner has made the 86 metre sprint (which will take around 12 seconds) there will be a 15 second pause, like a rest in a piece of music. Then the next runner will dash forth.<\/p>\n

The runners have been recruited from various athletics magazines. Each will work a four-hour shift, with sprints interspersed with rests.<\/p>\n

<\/a>They are to be paid \u00a310 per hour; and the Tate will be recruiting more runners through its website in due course. “We’re desperate to find enough people to keep it going for eight hours a day until November,” said Creed.<\/p>\n

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The piece has a certain mystery to it: why is the runner running? To what? From what? “They are running urgently,” said Creed, “to complete the work.”<\/p>\n

Is it pretentious, asked someone. “No, it is not pretentious. No one is pretending. They are just running,” said Creed.<\/p>\n

And is it art? ventured another. “It’s not for me to say what art is. I hope people enjoy it and I hope they find something in it. I make my work because I want to make my life better, to make things exciting and fun and enticing.”<\/p>\n

The appeal of the running figure, according to the artist, is simple: “Running is a beautiful thing. You do it without a pool, or a bike; it is the body doing as much as it can on its own.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>The pauses between the sprints, he said, provide a “frame” for looking at the runner.<\/p>\n

It was crucial, he said, that there should be no separation between runners and visitors; that the runners should have to weave past visitors and the visitors should be able to experience the runners directly, without a roped-off area. Nevertheless, those who take it upon themselves to join in the fun will be peremptorily stopped by museum security. “Running is not allowed in the galleries,” said Creed.<\/p>\n

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[ click to read full article at Guardian UK<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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