Late at Tate Britain: Shards of Utopia
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Urban Bear Research Centre
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18.00 – 22.00
Live Art, music and interventions curated by Cecilia Wee, writer and co-director of interdisciplinary art project Rational Rec. Shards of Utopia explores how cultural remnants of a revolutionary and hopeful past interrupt our present. Utopian ideals are investigated by artists Charlesworth,Lewandowski & Mann, Performance Klub Fiskulturnik, Counterproductions, Tom Badley, Emma Leach, Jon Hawken, They Are Here, Steven Ounanian, Mick Jones, Taigen Kawabe and Resonance FM.
State of Technology – a trio of talks
Auditorium from 18.30 until 21.10, Chaired by Jen Thatcher
18.30-19.10
Mick Jones: science fiction books in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Public Library
In conversation with writer Paul Gorman
In conjunction with Chelsea Space 5th Anniversary Exhibition, curated by RUN gallery.
19.30-20.10
Tom Badley: The Holographic Principle
A lecture about string theory based on the artist’s forthcoming book ‘Seamless Breakage’.
20.30-21.10
Steven Ounanian: I Prayed to Saint Isidore, and God Sent My Mother a Robot
A lecture-performance about a robot the artist made in his own image for his mother in America.
Free tickets available from Clore Information desk at 18.00 on a first-come, first-served basis.
State of Persuasion – liminal interventions
Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann: Horror of Fang Rock/ ITN Early Evening News/ The Falcon and the Snowman
Millbank Entrance, Manton Entrance, Clore Gallery Entrance
Throughout the evening
Improvised vibration devices at each entrance transmit strange soundscapes throughout the fabric of the building.
Resonance FM: Prole Feed
Throughout the galleries
18.00, 19.00, 20.00, 21.00
Resonance FM's Richard Thomas creates a sequence of announcements for Tate Britain's Tannoy system. Read by Franziska Lantz.
State of Sound – aural aspirations
Room 9
Jon Hawken: DJ set
18.45-19.30, 20.30-21.30
Jon Hawken DJs sounds between the beautiful and the sublime [http://jonhawken.net]
Taigen Kawabe: Self-purification
19.45-20.15
Improvising with voice and guitar, Taigen Kawabe performs a rite of self-purification [http://www.myspace.com/taigenkawabe]
State of Space – explorations of the building
Emma Leach: Here Nor There
18.45 - 19.30, 19.45 - 20.15, 20.30 - 21.00
Throughout the galleries
A human news ticker which will appear, display and disappear, flickering back into the crowd.
They Are Here: A Tour of Utopias and Dystopias of Key-Cutters
Manton Studio
Every 20 minutes from 18.00 – 21.00 (last tour 21.00)
A Tour of the Utopias and Dystopias, given by Blue Badge Tourist Guide Natalie Wild, compiled by They Are Here.
Free tickets available from Manton Studio from 18.00 on a first-come, first-served basis. Each tour has a capacity of 12.
State of Corporeal – performances to test the constitution
Counterproductions/Urban Bear with Jungmin Song: Shards of Dis(ur)Topia
All evening, throughout the galleries
Counterproductions and Jungmin Song invite gallerygoers to record their 'topian' ideas.
[www.counterproductions.co.uk]
Performance Klub Fiskulturnik: Yugo Yoga
Room 9 and Manton Entrance
18.30 – 18.45, 19.30 – 19.45, 20.15 – 20.30
Performance Klub Fiskulturnik encourage us to take a path towards socialist self-realisation through movement.
