Late at Tate Britain
The Real Thing

Friday 3 September 2010
Mikko Canini , The Black Sun Rise , 2010
Mikko Canini
The Black Sun Rise  2010
© the artist

Urbanomic presents performance, film and other interventions exploring the emerging philosophical paradigm of Speculative Realism and its impact on contemporary art practice. 

The Real Thing includes the premiere of newly commisioned sound works from Florian Hecker and William Bennett+Mimsy DeBlois, the screening of new video works by Amanda Beech and Mikko Canini, sculptural interventions by Pamela Rosenkranz and John Gerrard and a panel discussion with Amanda Beech, Mikko Canini, theorist Mark Fisher (K-Punk), philosopher Iain Hamilton Grant, Urbanomic director Robin Mackay and Pamela Rosenkranz.