Friday 7 May 2010

 

The East is rising. Join us for an East London inspired mix of art, music, film and performance mapping the diverse cultures, creative energy and politics of the East End.

 

This is Where The East Begins

Room 9, 18.30–21.30
Bringing rising sounds from East London and capturing some of it’s history, transition and mood, Sweety Kapoor presents a slice of the East End through music, poetry and film.

18.30–19.15 Osmani Soundz DJ set: Asian influenced dubstep from Nasha Experience, animation films by Bold Creative
19.15–19.20 Screening: Riz Ahmed In the Ghetto, 2010
19.20–19.50 Osmani Soundz DJ set, visuals by Khaldoon Ahmed, Hazuan Hashim and Phil Maxwell
19.50–20.00 The Whitechapel Poet: Stepehen Watts with music by Renu Hossian and Sweety Kapoor
20.00–20.20 Award winning lyricist MC Naga
20.00–20.25 Screening: Riz Ahmed In the Ghetto, 2010
20.20–20.30 Poet / MC Haroon Anwar
20.30–21.30 State Of Bengal with Mattis, Renu Hossian and MC Bola / Nez man

Resistance and Spatial Reformers: Refusing to Accept One's Place

Room T7, 18.30–20.30
This Is Not A Gateway's Deepa Naik and Trenton Oldfield facilitate a salon discussion exploring the return of slums in Europe and East London, how notions of poverty are constructed, and the psycho/social condition of refusing to accept one's place motivating social and spatial reformers. Join the debate with Mark Saunders, Ruhana Ali, Oliver Ressler, David Rosenberg, Andrea Luka Zimmerman & Lasse Johansson, Kevin Cahill and Andrea Gibbons.

Room T7, 20.35–21.30
Curator Ele Carpenter talks to artist Oliver Ressler about his film What is Democracy?, 2009 which presents a multiplicity of different answers to the question, from activists and political analysts living in states that are usually labelled democracies.

The Foundry: Late, Late, Late Breakfast Show

Duffield Room, 19.00–21.00
Celebrating eight years of their Late, Late Breakfast show on Resonance 104.4 fm, renowned Shoreditch artist platform The Foundry broadcast a special double edition for Late at Tate with invited guests and musical interludes. Join the chat about politics, art and life or listen live in the Clore foyer and around the galleries.

Bob and Roberta Smith: East Is The New West Readings

Room 21, 19.00–19.30
Artist and long term East End resident Bob and Roberta Smith reads and performs a selection of stories from his film Humiliate, 1993 and other anecdotal observations of the area.

Fordham Gallery

Millbank Entrance, 18.30–21.30
For Late at Tate the Fordham Gallery stall is relocated from its usual home on Whitecross street market, to present an archive display with posters documenting previous shows, and recorded conversations with artists including Audrey Reynolds, Lucy Gunning, Joe Royle and Michael Needham.

Film

Auditorium, 18.30–19.30
Hamja Ahsan, Bengali on a platform, 2008
Hamja Ahsan, Life is hard enough when you belong here, and yeah, 2008

Shot in one take, Bengali on a platform follows the protagonist the length of Brick Lane delivering a multi-lingual response to Morrissey's controversial comments on immigration made in the song Bengali in Platforms.

Taking its title from a Morrissey lyric, Life is hard enough when you belong here, and yeah shows two young Bengali East Enders describe what the artist's music means to them.

Both films will be shown on a loop until 19.30.

Auditorium, 19.30–21.30
Hazuan Hashim and Phil Maxwell, East End Lives 1, 2009 and East End Lives 2, 2010

Watch the first films in a major project by local artists Hazuan Hashim and Phil Maxwell, examining the area through the eyes of residents in East End Homes, a social housing initiative in Tower Hamlets. Phil Maxwell's East End archive, over 30 years worth of photographs of East London, will also be shown in Room 9 as part of This is Where The East Begins.

Both films will be shown on a loop until 21.30.