Saturday 17 February 2007, 15.00
Saturday 10 March 2007, 15.00
Saturday 21 April 2007, 15.00
Saturday 28 April 2007, 15.00

Programme duration 95 min

Brilliant, unsettling, witty and macabre, The World of Gilbert & George (UK 1981, 69 min) animates the artists’ extraordinary vision of life, hope and despair in a London on the cusp of the social and economic upheavals of the 1980s.

Plus Gilbert & George: The Singing Sculpture (USA 1992, 23 min)

The Singing Sculpture is among Gilbert & George’s earliest and most famous works. This film was made on the occasion of Singing Sculpture's twentieth anniversary. As with the original in 1968, Gilbert & George presented The Singing Sculpture at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York. The film intercuts the sculpture with excerpts from interviews with the artists. Moving with slow, robotic gestures to Underneath the Arches, a depression-era song about homelessness, the pair alternate roles as gilded men in business suits. The Singing Sculpture references the pathos and desperation of marathon dancing of the 1930s, while also reflecting the alienation of our post-industrial society.

The Singing Sculpture is presented courtesy Phillip Haas and Sonnabend Gallery.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5, booking recommended

    

• Buy The World of Gilbert and George on DVD

This event is related to the Gilbert & George: Major Exhibition exhibition