The nominees for the Turner Prize 2014 have been unveiled at the Tate Britain. The shortlisted artists, competing for the 30th Turner Prize, are Duncan Campbell, James Richards, Ciara Phillips and Tris Vonna-Michell.
The nominations include work that manipulates film footage, online imagery, analogue technology, craft and design, reflecting through the diversity of the utilised means, the impact of the new technologies on a new generation of artists.
 Installation view from The Showroom, London. Courtesy of  Ciara Phillips and Kendall Koppe, Glasgow
Dublin-born Campbell is shortlisted for his film It for Others. Employing often provocative subjects and weaving fact and fiction, he questions the authority and the means through which the history is presented.
                      It for Others 2013, 16mm film transferred to digital Video.                          Courtesy of Duncan Campbell and Rodeo Gallery.
The Canadian artist Ciara Phillips, who is nominated for a solo show in London, produces screenprints, photographs and wall paintings transforming, often, the gallery into a workshop involving other artists and designers.
      Performance at Roskidle Museum of Contemporary Art.
Courtesy of Tris Vonna-Michell, Cabinet, London, Jan Mott, Brussels
Michell creates narratives though fast-paced spoken word live performances and recordings accompanying them with visual installation, slide projections, photocopies and other ephemera. His nomination is for his solo exhibition Postscript II, an installation based on his mother’s childhood in Berlin.
       Installation view at jan Mot,Brussels. Courtesy of Vonna-Michell and Jan Mot, Brussels/Mexico City
Lastly, Richards is shortlisted for his contribution to The Encyclopaedic Palace at the 55th Venice Biennale. In his videos and installations Richards brings together a disparate range of found and original material, including YouTube, VHS tapes from charity shops and footage shot by himself, to create poetic meditations accompanying them with soundtracks which heighten the emotional range of the original.
                     Rosebud 2013, HD Video. Courtesy of James Richards
This year’s nominees will be on show at the Turner Prize Exhibition at Tate Britain from September,30 until January 4, 2015; the winner will be named on December, 1.
by Xenia Founta