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• -A mirror. Just a mirror, the same as you would have in your bathroom. No frame, the idea (of course) is that you become the art when you look at it. Sheer brilliance, well done.
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• -A film of some nekkid bird (who did need a bit of a trim it has to be said) covering herself in fake blood by a riverbank before rolling around in a pile of feathers. WTF?
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• -A wooden battery box, with some wires connected to some bits of clay. The "instructions" next to it mentioned something about it signifying how power is drawn from the earth. Marvellous.
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• -A small A4 sized bit of wall that was painted a slightly lighter shade than the rest of it. You know, as if the artist had bought one of those colour pot things and was deciding what colour to paint his living room. Genius.
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• -And finally, what I genuinely thought was an exhibit being built. There was a workbench, some paint, tools, radio, battery drill, and for some reason some car tyres. But no, this was indeed some more "art".
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• What a load of complete, utter, total bullocks. I could not help noticing that 75% of the people wandering round walked up to a piece, quickly pulled the expression of "WTF?", before going on to the next bit. And why did every piece have "instructions"? "The damaged sections of the laminated newspaper reflects the frosty relationship between Japan and the USA in the immeadiate post-war years...". Whatever.
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• I really, really wanted to like it...and perhaps 10% of it was OK. But the rest of it seemed like an inordinate waste of space and time and money. Seems ludicrous when there are people out there with genuine talent that we've wasted Central London space on this bulloks.
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Tate Modern