2006

Live Art Space
LIVEARTSPACE create site specific evenings of music, performance, theatre and installation. Over 400 people dropped into the East Room on the evening of 21st October 2006 to enjoy eclectic music sets from Uncle Bob, Little Hands Clapping and Wednesday and friends.

The crowd also enjoyed two spectacular DJ/VJ sets from Camera2Visulas and DJ Redmarley as the sun set over the London skyline.

The Lucid Imagery writing desk had some beautiful love letters written in reply to those left ‘for you, from me’, around the room. The hum of people hushed for Nancy and Mary’s performance art piece as they lead us in to the dark world of Frosty, loved by the crowd.

The homemade style of LIVEARTSPACE worked well in the amazing setting at the top of TM. – Emma Lanman

topRaw Canvas Training Course 2007
Congratulations to everyone that took part in the Raw Canvas’s training programme and made it a booming success.

“The course has been dynamic and engaging. It really opened my perception to new ideas” – Eva.

“You got to experience the inner workings of the Tate Modern and think not only about art but also about communication. I feel I’ve learned so much and I’ve also met really nice people in the process” – Chiara.

“This Raw Canvas experience has been amazing! Just the journey here is so fun and the arriving and meeting all these fantastic people has been a fantastic start to 2007” – Grace



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The Way Things Were: Raw Canvas Party
Saturday night- lights dimmed, music up, vegetable carving, Raw Tours, dressing up. One Minute Sculptures… It could only be the Raw Canvas Winter party! The evening, inspired by the Fischli and Weiss show, explored the idea of the ‘everyday’ in art.



Objects were reinvented and revitalised as we dressed up in sponges and tea towels and made sculptures out of ourselves and detergent bottles! How is it possible to carve a teapot from a tomato? Why don’t we wear saucepans as hats? What is the best way to balance ten oranges on top of a bucket on your head? So many questions, so many possible answers!



The party was our way of wrapping up the year in style and at the same time posing invigorating questions to begin to think about the value of the things used around us and in art. – Katie Schwab






top The Raw Canvas Exhibition
Neighbouring the delights of the party, The Way Things Were exhibition provided a retreat and visual alternative to the hubbub of the party, celebrating Raw Canvas events from 2006 and previous years.



Drawing inspiration from Fischli and Weiss, the exhibition was eccentric and highlighted their charismatic ideas. We used everyday objects such as ironing boards and ladders to display the Pierre Huyghe Summer Course creations. The exhibition reflected the creativity and variety of Raw Canvas events through the showing of films and stills, sculptures and sound installations, created during the summer courses and other workshops and events.



The Raw Canvas Exhibition was a great success and a lovely way to celebrate the past whilst welcoming 2007. – Lauren Cardoe.

topKandinsky Summer Course
Being involved in leading the Making Music summer course was really exciting because it brought together people with different interests to share their experience and learn something new. We discovered the musical influences behind Kandinsky's work, engaged in synaesthesic experiences (that's when your brain confuses sight and sound - our word of the week!), and produced some vibrant abstract music, based on pictures in the exhibition. In only three days the Raw Canvas team shared their favourite Kandinsky paintings; discussed graphical scores; wondered at the miracles of thunder tubes and space phones; worked together to record “found sounds”; musicians Angela and Ivan taught how to use professional music composing software; and people teamed up to create their own interpretations of Kandinsky's paintings in sound.

By Abigail Boswell

topThe Pierre Huyghe Summer Course
The Pierre Huyghe Summer Course was based around the show Celebration Park by the French artist, from which we lovingly borrowed Pierre's methods and themes. In fact everything from albino penguins to rainbow doughnuts and the third memory phenomena, we used it all to fashion a multilevel audience participatory spectacle. The idea was to bring to life a simple cartoon character by giving it memories borrowed from gallery visitors. By asking visitors questions, and photographing models that represented the memories, we had an almost fully formed history for our characters. The characters interacted with the public through the magic of some portable projectors which we borrowed from Toshiba. We projected pictures of the characters and their memories into the hands of the public so they held the artwork they helped to make. It was complex, but far more fun than complicated and everyone that took part was fantastic. In short, it was spectacular.

By Roger White

topReady Steady Cook
South African-Chinese artist Anthony Key came to TM and cooked a wonderful dish - Won Ton in the Tate kitchens and we got to help out. He than gave an inspirational talk about his work and how he uses food to explore the relationship between his Western and Eastern identities. Everyone got a takeaway box of activities to explore and plenty of Chinese food was eaten by all!

By Rachel Dedman

topSpeakers Corner
Raw Canvas collaborated for the workshop with no other than the grimey South London open mic outfit Speakers Corner! The participants also felt that workshop was interesting and different to previous workshops/events, especially the mix between hip-hop/poetry and art, they also felt the walk around of the museum was informative as well. The evening was a free-style MC-ing event with an images and words slideshow put together by the Raw Canvas team, to which the MC’s had to free-style some lyrics. Overall the Speaker Corner event was a success, everybody enjoyed themselves, performances were good from participates who spitted some bars at the end and especially the speaker corners MC’s who were exciting, articulate and funny.

By Ereomala Atigolo

topThe Long Weekend
The loaded Long Weekend kicked off on Friday with an open mic competition hosted by the fabulous South London open mic outfit Speakers Corner. The winner of a weeklong choice fm competition joined Mr Gee, Lumes, Street Politics, Wong and Boya, on stage and they blew us away with their performances! On Saturday we all took to the dance-floor and learned some break-dancing with Jonzi D’s company, followed by an opening party to celebrate the Brixton Street Studio Abstract Sunday offered us the chance to do some digital graffiti whilst soaking up brilliant tunes brought to us by east-London dj’s. On Monday we enjoyed the much awaited screening of Take 32, a video project undertaken in collaboration with Gateway Foyer followed by a chilled out afternoon of acoustic lives sets hosted by Dr Stoo. Skaters invaded Tate’s graffiti clad skate park throughout the weekend and we were treated to great demos twice a day, every day! We also got to take part in an interactive photography project brought to us by Chris Anderson and Alison Locke. The weekend ended on a real high with the last (sob!) skate demo. We can’t wait for the next Long Weekend!

By Clea and Helen