Saturday 21 February 2009, 15.00–15.30
Saturday 21 February 2009, 16.00–16.30
Saturday 21 February 2009, 17.15–17.45
Plouf!
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Plouf! Rio de Janeiro, 2006.
Photo and © Julien Bismuth and Jean-Pascal Flavien |
On 26 July, 2006, two boats met somewhere off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, near the Ilhas Cagarras. A sailing ship, party of Rio, accommodated the public and Flavien and Bismuth were held in a smaller boat, party of the beach of Copacabana, which left one hour later. The moment the two boats were within range to communicate marked the beginning of the performance. Reading texts punctuated by signs and signals, the performance was completed only when the two boats drifted too far apart. Plouf! will be re-invented in the context of the river Thames, outside Tate Modern.
UBS Openings is an exciting programme of events and activities which form part of the partnership between Tate Modern and UBS, a global financial services firm, over three years.
Tate Modern
Thames River
Free, booking required
Please note the times for this event indicate the embarking and disembarking times at Bankside Pier.
Free, booking required
Please note the times for this event indicate the embarking and disembarking times at Bankside Pier.
Artist Biographies
Julien Bismuth (Born in France in 1973, lives and works in New York) is both an artist and a writer. He studied visual art at UCLA and is currently completing a doctorate in Comparative Literature at PrincetonUniversity. His work moves between the fields of painting, drawing and installation and displays a recurrent interest for narration and performance, operating in the space between visual art and literature. His work has been exhibited recently in New York (Some Thing Else, Peter Blum, 2008), Paris (Solo Show, Galerie GP & N Vallois, 2008), Los Angeles (The Box, 2008) and Frankfurt (Monologues For Minerals, 1.1 (Salt Flat/Radio Stück), Galerie Parisa Kind, 2007).
Jean-Pascal Flavien (Born in France in 1971, lives and works in Berlin) is an artist who combines architectural experiment, book publishing and performance with other media, such as video, drawing, installation and sculpture. His performance and publishing projects are mostly done in collaboration with the artist and writer Julien Bismuth. These include Announcement (New York, 2005) and A Hidden Object (Los Angeles, 2000). Recent projects include Forgotten times & moments (Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, 2008) and Viewer in Marica (Rio de Janeiro/ Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, 2007).
