- Ikue Mori/Maya Deren
- Mathieu Briand with Prue Lang, Charlie Dark, si-cut.db, The Bug, Sarah Washington and Xentos 'Fray' Bentos
- Throbbing Gristle/Derek Jarman
(Returns only) - Marepe
- Sleep: Warhol/Cage/Satie with Gavin Bryars, Michael Nyman and Joshua Rifkin
- Hélio Oiticica
- Ryoichi Kurokawa, Toshimaru Nakamura and Billy Roisz, Sachiko M with Benedict Drew
UBS Openings: The Long Weekend is one of the world’s most dynamic celebrations of film, music, performance and visual art, set within the iconic architecture of Tate Modern. The four-day event, over the late May bank holiday, features a series of remarkable and unmissable one-off performances by celebrated international artists in the dramatic setting of the Turbine Hall as well as a full programme of family activities, workshops and games for all ages.
Mathieu Briand: SYS*011. Mie>AbE/SoS\ SYS*010, aka the Spiral
17.00 –18.00
Turbine Hall
French artist Mathieu Briand transforms the Turbine Hall into a gigantic sound installation: SYS*011. Mie>AbE/SoS\ SYS*010, also known as the Spiral. Briand’s installation will create a massive, experimental sound recording studio and performance space. Participants in the family workshop run by Sonic Arts Network leader Duncan Chapman will perform a sound manipulation.
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Free
Maya Deren/Ikue Mori
21.00
Turbine Hall
This screening of seven landmark experimental films by the legendary filmmaker Maya
Deren is accompanied by live, newly commissioned soundtracks by the Japanese, New York-based
musician and NO Wave pioneer Ikue Mori
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£18.00
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Mathieu Briand: SYS*011. Mie>AbE/SoS\ SYS*010, aka the Spiral
10.00–18.00
Turbine Hall
French artist Mathieu Briand transforms the Turbine Hall into a gigantic sound installation: SYS*011. Mie>AbE/SoS\ SYS*010, also known as the Spiral. Briand’s installation creates a massive, experimental sound recording studio and performance space which will be explored through six original performances by artists including Mathieu Briand, Charlie Dark, si-cut.db, Sarah Washington and Xentos ‘Fray’ Bentos, the Bug in collaboration with Spaceape and Radio Active Man.
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Free
What Can The Matter Be?
14.00
Starr Auditorium
Tired of not being able to touch anything in art galleries? Do you long to lick the paintings? If so, you'll be in good company as we explore through demonstrations the science behind the sensations of Art.
Ages 8 and up
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Free
Families
Mathieu Briand and Prue Lang: Did you ever want to be someone else?
15.00–16.00
Various Locations
Did you ever want to be someone else? is a new performance work by Mathieu Briand and choreographer Prue Lang commissioned by Tate for UBS Openings: The Long Week End. The performance will involve up to 100 performers and will use the large flow of visitors in the museum as part of the work.
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Free
Throbbing Gristle/Derek Jarman
21.00
Turbine Hall
Throbbing Gristle perform live in remembrance of visionary UK filmmaker Derek Jarman. The performance will feature a selection of Jarman's rarely seen 1970s experimental Super 8 films.
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(Returns only)
Marepe
10.00–18.00 Turbine Hall
Brazilian artist Marepe reveals his spectacular, one-off installation, a gigantic carousel in the Turbine Hall made from found objects from his native Brazil, surrounded by tables laden with toffee apples.
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Free timed ticket required
What Can The Matter Be?
13.00
Starr Auditorium
Tired of not being able to touch anything in art galleries? Do you long to lick the paintings? If so, you'll be in good company as we explore through demonstrations the science behind the sensations of Art.
Ages 8 and up
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Free
Families
Sleep: Warhol/Cage/Satie - Panel Discussion
15:00–17:00
Starr Auditorium, Level 2
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern This panel discussion examines the little-discussed relationship between the work of Andy Warhol, John Cage and Erik Satie.
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£10.00
£25.00 joint ticket with evening performance
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Sleep: Warhol/Cage/Satie
19.30 Sunday 27 May – 15.45 Monday 28 May 2007
Turbine Hall
Andy Warhol’s first film, Sleep 1963, is screened throughout the
night accompanied by a re-creation of the musical performance that inspired
it, John Cage’s historic 1963 staging of Erik Satie’s epic repetitive work
for piano, Vexations (1893). Featuring performances by ten pianists including Gavin Bryars, Michael Nyman, Tania Chen and Joshua Rifkin. Introduced with a live performance by John Giorno, the subject of the film.
The event runs all night but ticket holders can drop in and out. Food and drink will be available during the night. Feel free to bring a sleeping bag.
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£18.00
£25.00 joint ticket with daytime panel discussion
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Oiticica
13.30–17.00
Level 4 and North Landscape
A series of workshops inviting participation from visitors followed by a one-off performance presenting Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica's Parangolés will be taking place in and around the gallery.
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Free
Synthesis – Ryoichi Kurokawa, Toshimaru Nakamura and Billy Roisz, Sachiko M with Benedict Drew
21.00 - 23.00Turbine Hall
Presenting live audio-visual performances from Japan, Austria and the UK, this programme highlights artists who are exploring feedback, decay, assemblage and kinetics; through the use of electronic, analogue and self-built instruments.
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£18.00
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Resonance 104.4 FM broadcasts live from Tate Modern
11.30–18.00
Resonance FM will be broadcasting live from Tate Modern with a mix of music, interviews and radio art. Drop in to the Starr Auditorium studio or enjoy the broadcast over a coffee in the café.
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Family activities
11.00–17.00
The festival will also feature a full programme of free interactive family
activities, workshops and games aimed at all ages, including return of
The Great Turbine Challenge, the hugely popular 3000 square foot board
game created by set designer Delia Peel.
Families
Eileen, the pinhole camera van
Saturday 26 May 2007
Sunday 27 May 2007
Monday 28 May 2007
10.00–18.00
North Landscape
Eileen, a van operated by artist educator Karen Barnes, complete with a
pinhole camera, will be parked on the north landscape providing an opportunity
for groups to take their own pictures.
Get Started Yurt
Saturday 26 May 2007
Sunday 27 May 2007
Monday 28 May 2007
11.00–17.00
North Landscape
Visit the ‘Get Started’ family tent to take part in a range of activities devised
for adults and children. Create a giant ‘exquisite corpse’ drawing, try your
luck with a Fluxus forfeit, or have a Surrealist family portrait taken. Find
out how to take part in more fun and games in the gallery at the Family Zone
and the Start programme.
Raw Canvas Yurt
Saturday 26 May 2007
Sunday 27 May 2007
Monday 28 May 2007
11.00–18.00
The Raw Canvas Yurt will host a variety of acoustic performances, imaginative
creations and chill out zones. Dress up, find clues and impress the public
with your surreal poems and sculptures; make your own finger, sock, glove,
string or shadow puppets and put on a puppet show; or just sit back and
let yourself be serenaded by musicians.
The Great Turbine Challenge
Friday 25 May 2007
Saturday 26 May 2007
Sunday 27 May 2007
11.00–17.00
This giant board game created especially for families takes place on the Turbine
Hall Bridge. Adults and children are invited to play the game together, making
their own journey across the board and undertaking exciting challenges relating
to the artworks on display. Dressed in artist hats, players meet giant metronomes
and other bizarre objects that will inspire them to think about modern art in
different ways.
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Age 5 and up
Free timed ticket required
Tate and UBS share a vision to open up art. Together we have created UBS Openings, a dynamic and wide-reaching programme focused on the Tate Modern Collection.
The programme features the complete re-hang of Tate Modern's permanent Collection, including a selection of works from The UBS Art Collection, an annual cultural festival, regular live events and an exciting range of activities for families.
By working together, we believe that our unique partnership will enable us to reach out to more audiences than ever before.
Opening up art. Tate Modern Collection with UBS
