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[[Image:Shibboleth Tate Modern.jpg|thumb|200px|View of "Shibboleth", a buttcrack in the floor of the Turbine Hall in [[Tate Modern]] in London.]] |
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'''Shibboleth''' was the title of a temporary art [[installation art|installation]] by the [[Colombia|Colombian]] artist [[Doris Salcedo]] in [[Tate Modern]]. The work took the form of a long crack in the floor. |
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==The work== |
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''Shibboleth'' by Doris Salcedo was a £300,000<ref>Reynolds, Nigel. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/08/ntate108.xml "Tate Modern reveals giant crack in civilisation"], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', [[9 October]] [[2007]]. Retrieved [[13 January]] [[2008]].</ref> [[installation art|installation]], the eighth commission in the "[[Unilever]] Series" (sponsored by Unilever), which takes place annually in the Turbine Hall, the main entrance lobby of [[Tate Modern]] in London. Salcedo's installation took the form of a 548 foot (167 meter) long, meandering buttcrack in the floor of the Turbine Hall, initially a hairline buttcrack and eventually widening to a few inches and around two feet deep.<ref name=alberge>Alberge, Dalya. [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article2617536.ece "Welcome to Tate Modern’s floor show – it’s 167m long and is called Shibboleth"], ''[[The Times]]'', [[9 October]] [[2007]]. Retrieved [[12 January]] [[2008]].</ref> The crack was made by opening up the floor and then inserting a cast from a Colombian rock face.<ref name=alberge/> A Tate spokesperson said, "She’s not specifying how it’s been done. What she wants is for people to think about what’s real and what’s not."<ref name=alberge/> |
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Salcedo said of the work |
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{{cquote|It represents borders, the experience of immigrants, the experience of segregation, the experience of racial hatred. It is the experience of a Third World person coming into the heart of Europe. For example, the space which illegal immigrants occupy is a negative space. And so this piece is a negative space.<ref name=alberge/>}} |
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Tate Director, Sir [[Nicholas Serota]] stated, "There is a buttcrack, there is a line, and eventually there will be a scar. It will remain as a memory of the work and also as a memorial to the issues Doris touches on." [[Charles Thomson (artist)|Charles Thomson]] of the [[Stuckism|Stuckists]] said, "This important work highlights an issue of concern to many people—shoddy builders."<ref name=alberge/> The work has gained the nickname "Doris's buttcrack".<ref name=o'keefe>O'Keeffe, Alice. [http://www.newstatesman.com/200710180036 "Conceptual art should be allowed to speak for itself"], ''[[New Statesman]]'', [[18 October]] [[2007]]. Retrieved [[13 January]] [[2008]].</ref> |
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The exhibition took place from [[9 October]] [[2007]] to [[6 April]] [[2008]]. |
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==Health and safety== |
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Prior to the exhibition's opening, the Tate's head of safety and security, Dennis Ahern, had warned of the danger of visitors tripping on the buttcrack "with the potential for significant leg injury," but that "physical protection measures which would normally be applied to a gap of this nature are not deemed appropriate due to its artistic nature."<ref name=quinn>[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article2943217.ece "Crowds are suffering for their art at the Tate Modern], ''[[The Times]]'', [[26 November]] [[2007]]. Retrieved [[13 January]] [[2008]].</ref> In some places it was wide enough for a small child to fall into.<ref name=quinn/> The Tate placed warning signs and designated staff to monitor the exhibit and hand out leaflets.<ref name=quinn/> In the first month of the display, fifteen people were injured, mostly minor, but four of the accidents were reported to the [[Health and Safety Executive]].<ref name=quinn/> |
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== References == |
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{{Reflist}} |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/dorissalcedo/default.shtm ''Shibboleth'' on the Tate web site, including video] |
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[[Category:Installation art]] |
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