Two Hours Of Sex At Tate

Sam Taylor-Wood - one of Britain's pre-eminent artists, a Turner Prize nominee - has constantly pushed the boundaries, but for some her latest work goes too far - it is a pornographic film. The two-hour movie Destricted, to be premiered at Tate Modern in September, has the lengthiest explicit scenes ever passed for a mainstream audience. Almost the entire duration of the film is devoted to images or discussions of sex acts and it reopens the debate about where the boundary lies between art and porn. "Well, my brief was porn and I think I made porn so therefore it should be porn," said Ms Taylor-Wood. "But it's so nice and it's so beautiful it feels sort of different to porn." The Tate saw no problem with showing such explicit material. A spokeswoman said: "The films highlight the representation of sexuality in art and contribute to the debate surrounding the representation of sex and sexuality within contemporary culture." For the full story - click the title Irish Art