Martin Creed 🇬🇧 Turner Prize Winner, by avec art on Dec 22, 2018 12:25:02 GMT 1, I mentioned collective histories, as many atrocities of colonialism and later the slave trade were carried out with the use of pseudo scientific methods of human classification, this in itself was an extension of a particular method of classification so closely adopted. Much of the wealth in the West was achieved through exploitation and at the expense of other cultures (perhaps still so). Manual labour was outsourced to people considered inferior and enshrined in law by the establishment of the time. It can be argued that the structures in place which allowed such events to happen are still the same structures albeit with a different veneer.

I'm proposing the hypothesis that art can be a powerful tool, and has always been used as such, and that the art establishment today, the turner prize people et all, are patsy or party to those same age old political power structures and as such like to choose art which represents the values they cling to. Claiming them to be radical and challenging boundaries, when in fact just singing off the same old hymn sheet, and simply reinforcing the status quo.

Perhaps I'm raising a number of issues here which go well beyond the questioning of a single artist. If you read what I've said I've not criticised him once (and I know art critique often doesn't go down well here) but questioned the reason why he was adopted and put on a pedestal by those who can choose whose voice is heard and whose is not.