Classified: Contemporary Art at Tate Britain

Classified will offer visitors to Tate Britain the opportunity to see exceptional works by leading contemporary artists and to explore the recent development of Tates outstanding collection. Artists represented in the exhibition will be: Phillip Allen, Gillian Carnegie, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Martin Creed, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Mark Dion, Ceal Floyer, Damien Hirst, Simon Patterson, Peter Peri, Fiona Rae, Simon Starling, and Rebecca Warren.

Classified will focus on the way artists use ordering systems in their work, exploring how our need to classify affects our perception of the world. The exhibition will address this desire to collect, order and categorise, and will show how artists often use these networks and relationships in ways that reveal the inherent instability of meaning. The works in this exhibition employ a variety of methods and approaches, but are united by the artists engagement with the ways we all codify the objects and images that surround us as part of our daily life.

Category:

Education

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• Classified
• Collection
• Ordering
• Systems
• Classify
• Exhibition
• Tate
• Britain
• Contemporary
• Art

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@spiralisedcat

yes that sounds fascinating! I use to read books from the library (cheaper than buying them), and sometimes people leave papers in the books (like in your shopping carts). But I always feel somewhat uncomfy reading other people's private stuff. I just fold it and throw it into the paper recycling. But maybe I should collect some papers like you do, could be of interest, never thought of that before!

[spiralisedcat]

@Woggyflush Every piece i have is hand written quick lists made up,I never pick up actual receipts.Ive not found one yet with a name or personal information on it.Thou i have one with shopping on one side and written on the back is a paragraph written about the slave trade and its affects on the modern world ;S there fascinating.

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@spiralisedcat

I see your point. But how do you secure there is no personal information included, like names or credit card numbers?

[spiralisedcat]

@Woggyflush I collect the used lists that litter the floor and litter the trolleys,peoples rubbish left to blow in the wind and pollute the enviroment.I collect them and aim to do a collage to show our materialism and what people buy on a day to day basis in the 21st century.The shopping list is a forget about little gem,Its art in itself.

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@spiralisedcat

that's illegal

[spiralisedcat]

I collect shopping lists from supermarket trolleys