This year there is trilling and warbling,chairs and jackets, trestles and tables, and a frightening exploration of beliefs gone awryBlack-clad singers stand silhouetted in Tramway’s echoing white space. Janice Kerbel’s Doug,a sung catalogue of human and animal disasters, has already been presented in Glasgow, and at the Mitchell library. Here it is again,in the Turner prize. Doug has that kind of upbeat classically trained singing that gets on my nerves. Trilling and warbling, spiralling and keening, and harmonising and going solo,the singers are doing their best with the material. They stop with dying notes and loud onomatopoeic crescendos.
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Source: theguardian.com