Beck's Futures set out last year to be a rival for the Turner prize.
Former Turner prize-winner Grayson Perry has called the art establishment disengaged "with the real world".
Perhaps it should also consider entering some of its industrial waste for the Turner Prize.
Vong Phaophanit, Turner prize nominee and his co-creator, Claire Oboussier, have commented on the issue.
The Turner Prize will also be staged in the former barracks on Ebrington Square.
The Turner Prize winner will present a solo exhibition at the British Pavilion from June to November 2013.
The Turner Prize-winning Bristol artist Richard Long has been appointed CBE in the Queen's New Year Honours list.
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Other surprises include Sacrilege - a life-sized inflatable replica of Stonehenge by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller.
Thomas Heatherwick's Olympic cauldron and the sweeping velodrome arena will compete against Turner Prize nominee Paul Noble in the visual arts category.
The programme for Derry in 2013 includes the Turner Prize, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal National Ballet and Lumiere, a festival of light.
In the past the Turner Prize has courted controversy with winners including Gilbert and George, Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley and Damien Hirst.
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The year will conclude with the Turner Prize being awarded in Londonderry.
The leader of this "Scotia Nostra" was Douglas Gordon - who was the first of them to win the Turner Prize, in 1996.
How has one city managed to produce a generation of international contemporary artists, scooping an incredible number of nominations for Britain's top visual art award, the Turner prize?
The Turner Prize winner, known for his commission for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square and his State Britain exhibition at the Tate Britain, said it was an honour.
The occasion will be the opening of an exhibition of work by artists short-listed for the 1997 Turner Prize but the rumpus will not be a piece of performance art.
"It's a lot of hard work being nominated for the Turner Prize and I'd advise anybody who gets nominated for it to think seriously whether you accept it, " she said.
There's none of the bottles of vodka and condoms that surrounded her seminal 1998 "My Bed, " which she showed as part of her entry for the Turner Prize (an award that eluded her).
Artists taking part in the show include Julian Opie, famed for designing a Blur album cover, film director Ken Loach, designer Zandra Rhodes, Turner Prize nominee Keith Tyson and shoe designer Manolo Blahnik.
Locals braving the elements were disappointed to find the celebrities were more Turner Prize winners than Brad Pitt, the face and rambling poet to be found, to much parody, on Chanel's latest ad campaign.
The Pull Out All The Stops Festival - from 18 March to 13 April 2014 - includes new works by John Tavener, Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy, and Turner Prize-winning artist and musician Martin Creed.
In the latest expedition, Whiteread, who won the 1993 Turner Prize for her concrete cast of the inside of a building, spent her time in the Artic walking, while McEwan wrote an essay on rescuing "the Earth from our own depredations".
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Also at the Tate Britain in the coming months is a major retrospective of the work of leading British sculptor and early Turner Prize winner Richard Deacon, who achieved international recognition in the 1980s with works such as Tall Tree in the Ear.
At the British Museum, the exhibition curated by Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry, which explored the depths of the museum and showed 170 objects alongside 30 of his own creations, was in part responsible for helping it continue its reign as the most popular visitor attraction.
If due to circumstances beyond Turner control the stated prize cannot be provided, Turner reserves the right to award a substitute prize of equal value.
Her Turner-prize nominated Bed was the place in which she contemplated suicide.
Starling won the Turner Art Prize in 2005.
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