Susan Philipsz shortlisted for Turner Prize 2010
05.05.2010 : Sara Dewsbery
We were thrilled to hear that recent Modern Art Oxford exhibitor Susan Philipsz is among the four artists shortlisted for the 2010 Turner Prize!
In 2009, Modern Art Oxford presented a new work by Susan Philipsz entitled 'You are not alone', a sound installation commissioned specially for the Radcliffe Observatory at Green Templeton College, Oxford. Philipsz was inspired in part by Guglielmo Marconi’s suggestion that sounds, once generated, never die; they fade but continue to reverberate as sound waves across the universe. A pioneer of radio technology later used in radio telescopes, Marconi may have been driven by this thought to investigate the potential of wireless telegraphy; to literally tune into the universe. In her evocative commission, Philipsz elicited something of the existential and philosophical concerns present in Marconi’s proposition and in the nature of the Observatory itself, as metaphorical frontier to the stars. If you missed it, here's a little taster...
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