Is this artwork, winner of a drawing prize, even a drawing at all?

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/08/02/is-this-artwork-winner-of-a-d.html

No, that is a sculpture.

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judging from the related links on the Stuff site, it seems like this prize was invented purely to raise “is it art” questions…

  • Drawing a piece of paper nets $20k prize
  • A whole lot of graphite wins $20,000 Parkin Drawing Prize
  • Controversial Parkin Drawing Prize winner credits competition with elevating his career
  • ‘The Catastrophe’ wins $20,000 Parkin Drawing Prize
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Well, I do know it’s not a pipe.

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Nothing is anything anymore.
Nothing is anything.
Nothing is.
Nothing.
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Yes, and as the hierarchy of art goes, beneath drawing.

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Nice rock.

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I don’t know if it is… it’s a photo of a sculpture, maybe.
But what if the “sculpture” only exists in the photo?
I too don’t think its a drawing though.

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If you draw with a knife, on carpet, and then hang that up, will it not look like this? I assume that’s the basis of it all.

It’s obviously art, just look at all the provocation!

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If it is dismantled after the photo… then it’s just a photo, I think.

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Maybe it’s a performance.

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Only if the carpet was set on fire while it was being viewed. Or eaten.

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If there’s a blank wall behind it and you hit it with display lighting, it’s art.

If you see it stuck in a corner of an abandoned warehouse with junk laying around it, it’s not art.

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This seems somewhere between “The Treachery of Images”

and “Fountain”

More of a ready-made dadaist piece.

That said it would look horrible hanging in my bathroom, unlike my previous examples, so I can’t rate it that highly.

Ratty Carpet / 10

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No, once you hang it up it becomes assemblage.

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If you defecate on it while all that is happening, then it’s performance art.

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Come to think of it, I made what could be called "performative sculptures."
They had living people in them, but no actions.
Well… breathing, pumping and digesting, I guess.

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Only if there is gravity! That’s beyond the artists control! :wink:

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The magnitude of the work? I have no idea what’s going on here.