An artist who made a “filmed portrait” of a woman who live-streamed the immediate aftermath of her boyfriend’s death in a police shooting has been shortlisted for the Turner Prize. An artist who made a “filmed portrait” of a woman who live-streamed the immediate aftermath of her boyfriend’s death in a police shooting has been shortlisted for the Turner Prize. They include Luke Willis Thompson, 30, who made a black and white, silent 35mm portrait of Diamond Reynolds. The shortlist also features Glasgow-based artist Charlotte Prodger, whose work includes Bridgit, filmed entirely on her iPhone, “which she approaches as a prosthesis or extension of the nervous system … Body and device become extensions of each other”. This year’s shortlist also includes a group, Forensic Architecture, known for its “spatial investigations of state and corporate violations worldwide”.

Source: Irish Independent April 26, 2018 07:52 UTC