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Martin Creed's Work No. 850, featuring mad dashes across Tate, opens to the public tomorrow at Tate Britain. Hurry down Martin Creed, whose Work No. 850 opens July 1 2008 at Tate Britain. Photograph: PA I am certain someone has already computed the accumulated distance that will be achieved between now and October by Martin Creed's runners in Tate Britain, in terms of circumnavigations of the planet or trips to the moon, the hours run and the energy expended. But this is no laboratory test rat run or competitive race. The great thing about Creed's Work No. 850 is that it is gloriously pointless, a repeated explosion of vitality, a sort of extension of Paul Klee's definition of drawing as "taking a line for a walk". Nor will the runners always cut a straight line through the gallery. Creed's latest work will only really come... [read full story]
