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Copyright: © Martin Creed | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Martin Creed's *Work No. 837* from the Tate Collection. It's a video installation showing people vomiting, displayed on four stacked televisions. It’s… striking, to say the least. What do you see in this piece? Curator: I see a direct confrontation with bodily processes, laid bare through the mechanical reproduction of the screens. Consider the labor involved in creating this spectacle – the performers, the technicians, the editing. It challenges our notions of artistic skill, doesn’t it? Editor: I hadn’t thought about the labor that way, more about the gross-out factor! Curator: Exactly. Creed uses the readymade and questions the value we place on traditional forms of production. Think about the consumption and disposal of the TVs themselves. Are they art objects, or simply vessels? Editor: This makes me rethink what I consider art and labor. Curator: Precisely. It's a dialogue about materials, processes, and the human condition.
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Work No.837 2007 is a four-channel video work with sound, shown on four monitors which are stacked on the floor on top of each other in a two by two grid. The video players are arranged behind the monitors. Each screen shows either a casually dressed young man or woman in an entirely empty, white environment where even the distinction between floor and wall is blurred by the luminous white background. Against this emptiness, a single person on each screen vomits profusely and repeatedly, before walking out of shot. The footage is looped.
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