Curated by David Green, writer and lecturer at the University of Brighton, this exhibition showed a range of multimedia installations, book works, video, painting and three-dimensional works. makeshift set out to explore the contemporary practice of art in terms of its unavoidable contingency and the art object as something that is always, in some sense, provisional.
The work presented in makeshift turned the contingency and provisionality of art to its own ends; making virtue out of the circumstantial conditions under which art gets made and seen. The artists brought together for this exhibition used a variety of strategies in addressing these issues and included Turner Prize winner 2001 Martin Creed, Angela de la Cruz, Terry Smith, Amikam Toren, Turner Prize winner 2002 Keith Tyson, Richard Wenthworth and Peter Fischli and David Weiss, who will screen their video Der Lauf Der Dinge (The Way Things Go). Two lectures accompany the exhibition, details in 'other lectures'
There is a
catalogue available for the makeshift exhibition.
Martin Creed: Text excerpts from the Guardian Monday 9 December 2001 p3 (Fiachra Gibbons - Arts correspondent)
MartinCreed, the artist who "doesn't make art" because the world is already too cluttered with the stuff, last night won the Turner Prize and immediately set the glitterati guessing. Having made his name by crumpling bits of paper, would this 33-year-old son of Yorkshire now scrunch up the cheque? ... Creed's The Lights Going On and Off, an empty room in which the lights do just that, is the most minimal work ever to win the £20,000 prize, so minimal in fact that many of those who have seen it were unaware it was anything more than dodgy wiring.
