''All The Bells'' is a 2006 and 2012 artwork by

Martin Creed Martin Creed (born 21 October 1968) is a British artist, composer and performer. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for exhibitions during the preceding year, with the jury praising his audacity for exhibiting a single installation, ''Work No. 22 ...

Original work

The work was originally given in

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, in October 2006, where it attracted little favourable attention. Its rubric was: ''All of the bells in a city or town rung as quickly and loudly as possible for three minutes'' (or in Spanish, ''Todas las campanas en una ciudad o pueblo sonando tan rápido y duro como sea posible por tres minutos''). The work was a collaboration between the Candela Art & Music Festival, Escuela de Artes Plásticas, Galeríía Comercial, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Mima and César Reyes and SunCom.

London 2012

The piece, under the title ''Work No. 1197: All The Bells'', with the revised rubric, ''All the bells in a country rung as quickly and as loudly as possible for three minutes'', was subsequently re-commissioned, for a sum rumoured to be between thirty-five and fifty thousand pounds, and advertised as being a new work, by the

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. The Central Council of Church Bell Ringers declined to participate. The Council's President, Kate Flavell, criticised both the timing and content of the piece in her official blog.

References

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