By Ian YoungsA K-Pop-style boy band, a post-apocalyptic twilight zone and a pack of menacing machines are among the artistic creations going on show at this year's Turner Prize exhibition.
Work by the quartet of nominees for the prestigious contemporary art award will go on show at Tate Liverpool this week.To find out about the contenders' work and what it all means, read on.After walking through a red corridor, watched by the beady eyes of the animal kingdom, you enter Phillipson's blue-lit post-apocalyptic psychedelic landscape.
"It does, I guess, poetically invoke the threat of climate change, but it's a deeply immersive space, and she speaks about cultivating strangeness." "I think a boy band is a really perfect medium to think about how identities are constructed," Sin has said. "You have the sexy one, you have the serious one, the playful one, and this kind of individualisation of the characters is played up often for marketing purposes. But they can't exist on their own."Sin also explores identity in a 23-minute video inspired by ancient Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu's story about having a dream about being a butterfly.
Meanwhile, at the other end of her room are monstrous home-made machines made out of things like old saws and a baseball bat with broken glass embedded, which Pollard found in the woods.
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