Thursday 8 October 2009, 18.00–19.30

Renowned British artist Michael Landy has co-curated the exhibition Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely, devoting special attention to Tinguely’s rarely examined early career, tracing the development of Tinguely's work from the late 1940s building up to his momentous Homage to New York. This, the most famous and influential of all ‘auto-destructive’ works of art, was a 27ft high self-destroying mechanism that came to life for 27 minutes during a performance in the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art, New York on 17 March 1960.

This exciting exhibition focuses on the connection between Landy’s work and that of Tinguely (1925-1991), one of the most radical, inventive and subversive sculptors of the mid twentieth-century.

Landy will use this forum to discuss his work and comprehensive responses to Tinguely’s constructive and destructive tendencies with Tate Liverpool curator Laurence Sillars.

After the talk, Landy will be signing copies of the exhibition catalogue in the Tate shop until 20.30.

This event is supported by Tate Liverpool Members.

Tate Liverpool  The Auditorium
£7 (£5 concessions), booking recommended

This event is related to the Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely exhibition