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The Royal Standard Turner Prize Extravaganza!
The first in The Royal Standard’s programme of unique one-off events that bring together studio members and artists from across the UK and beyond to respond to elements of our context and locality, and raise essential funds for the livelihood of the organisation.
Contributing to the dialogue surrounding the 2007 Turner Prize and its new location at Tate Liverpool, The Royal Standard presented an alternative live event to coincide with the judging and award ceremony on Monday 3rd December 2007. Visitors were invited to place bets on the winner and watch the “live final” in an evening of Turner Prize related activity and entertainment, artists' film and video, performance and intervention.
*Screening of Artists’ Film and Video*
The screening featured a selection of works drawing on themes of competition, aspiration and recognition, exploring the performative role of the artist / artwork and the ways in which affirmation and understanding can be sought.
*Trine Lise Nedreaas (Berlin/New York) Forget me not 1, 2004 (5’36)
Nedreaas’ Forget me not series documents three Guinness World Record holders as they risk their lives to demonstrate their extraordinary skills. Removed from their audience, they perform alone for the camera, appearing vulnerable and exposed.
*WebsterGotts (Sheffield) Art Sheffield 08, 2007 (1’22)
The collaborative duo reflect on the impact of finding out that a recent exhibition proposal has not been selected for Sheffield’s city-wide art event.
*Dave Green and Alan Bogana (London/Geneva) Here and Here, 2007 (5’46)
With a playful nod to the emphasis on visitor feedback and interpretation in publicly funded institutions, the two artists set out to consult members of the public about the difference between “here” and “here”.
*Trine Lise Nedreaas (Berlin/New York) Forget me not 2, 2004 (3’10)
*Andrew Cooke (Sheffield) Speech, Speech, 2007 (2’35)
Working nights as a cleaner, the artist practises his acceptance speech for the Greatest Bestest Artist of All Time Award, with the aid of a toilet brush and a bottle of grout restorer.
*Trine Lise Nedreaas (Berlin/New York) Forget me not 3, 2004 (1’28)
*WebsterGotts (Sheffield) Another Rejection, 2007 (3’30)
The artists are plunged into despair as they receive another letter of rejection.
*Performance, Intervention and Entertainment*
aas (Birmingham) staged a Stuckist-style protest outside the venue about their own inclusion in the event.
*Guests were invited to race remote control cars representing each of this year’s Turner Prize nominees around a race truck constructed by Kate Longman (Sheffield).
*Re-appropriating Nathan Coley’s The Lamp of Sacrifice, 161 Places of Worship, Birmingham 2000, Charlotte Morgan (Sheffield) provided a number of low-tech kits that could be used by guests to construct replicas of Liverpool’s public artworks and landmarks. At the end of the evening, a winner decided by vote received a certificate and ownership of all the resulting artworks.
*Guests were invited to tuck into Katharine Lloyd’s (Liverpool) cake constructions inspired by Turner Prize artists past and present.
*Daniel Simpkins’ (Liverpool) text pieces announced alternative winners of the last ten years’ Turner Prizes. The works were auctioned off intermittently by the artist throughout the evening.
