Orature is here and everywhere, healthy, equal and always alive

Recently, the self-serving British art establishment, as its own literature suggests, “shocked the art world” by nominating a spoken word artist, Tris Vonna-Michell, for the prestigious Turner Prize.

Shocked? I doubt it. True, the Turner works well to annually ask, “What is Art?” This necessary question has been posed since time immemorial, often being answered with an open-ended, “No one can say”.