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Description: Fantastical narratives explored in the artist's film trilogy.
Phone: 0207887 8888
Website: www.tate.org.uk/britain
Email: visiting.britain@tate.org.uk
Trains: Tube: Pimlico/Vauxhall/Westminster 
, Tube / Bus: 2, 3, 36, 87 (formerly 77A), 88, 159, 185, 436, 507, C10 
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What a State: Mark Wallinger's State Britain recreates Brian Haw's Westminster anti-war display
In State Britain Mark Wallinger has produced one of the smartest political artworks of recent times. A sense of dislocation, however, may be the first response of anyone who recognises the 40-metre-long collection of handmade banners, placards and signs that make up the piece, striking a casually contrary note to the grandness of Tate Britain's Duveen Galleries.
They range from hideous photographs of disfigured babes, to cards crudely daubed with slogans like "You Lie/Kids Die/Bliar", to unflattering cartoons of George Bush et al.
The work is an exact replica of peace campaigner Brian Haw's display that once adorned Parliament Square. From June 2001, Haw camped opposite Parliament in protest first against sanctions, and then the war against Iraq. In May 2006, in accordance with the Serious Organised Crime And Police Act of 2005's prohibition of any protest without prior permission within designated areas - in this case 1km around the Palace of Westminster - the police removed it all, sparking fury from civil liberties campaigners.
As it happens, that 1km exclusion zone bisects the Duveen Galleries, usefully adding a dramatic touch of civil disobedience to Wallinger's work, knowingly compounded by the history of New Labour's cosy relationship with the contemporary art world. In this double two-fingered salute, using the state's own space against its current masters, lies the strength of the work.
That Wallinger painstakingly reproduced Haw's banners rather than using the originals seems to complicate the matter. On a practical level he had little choice. Haw's possessions are still in the hands of the police. On another level this representation is a critique of the new law that effectively reduces all protests to mere tokens - pre-approved by the powers that be.
In the accompanying pamphlet, however, the Tate tries to emphasise Wallinger's act of recreation to neuter the politics of the work, saying, "His intention is to make a three-dimensional history painting that represents the event, and not necessarily to continue the protest per se".
Actually, it is the work's clear physical and political directness that pushes it beyond the realm of impotent paintings and photographs, towards direct protest and so more effectively into the mind of the viewer.
• Until 27 August (020 7887 8888, www.tate.org.uk).
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This show is just a load of didactic drivel with no artistic merit. It's politics - and not very good politics - instead of art. We all know that Bush and Blair are fools and liars, but all the proof we need for that is in the daily death toll from Iraq. We don't need this farrago to muddy the waters of art as well.
- Colin Liddell, Irvine, Ayrshire
