UBS Openings:
The Long Weekend 2008
UBS Openings: The Long Weekend brings you three days and nights of extraordinary live events and performances at Tate Modern.
During the day, the gallery will be buzzing with performances to watch and opportunities to get involved, themed around the States of Flux Collection display, which explores change, progress and movement.
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the Turbine Hall is the dramatic setting for spectacular evening events combining music and visuals.
The Long Weekend Programme
- Listen to Willem de Ridder's illegal exhibition which takes the form of an audio tour
- See Gustav Metzger's contribution to the Fluxus Festival of Misfits.
- Watch QUICKSILVER, a performance by The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs.
- Discover how contemporary artists have interpreted the score Draw a straight line and follow it by La Monte Young
Friday 23 May 2008
- 21.00–23.30
Djibril Diop Mambéty
A screening of two films by Djibril Diop Mambéty
Saturday 24 May 2008
- 11.00–14.30
Flux Olympiad free
Games and field events 11.00–12.30
Individual and team races 12.30–14.00
- 11.00–15.00
Art Talks free
Artists, musicians, comedians and others select theit favourite artwork at Tate Modern
10.30–16.00
Play free
Flux Chess, Blow Soccer, Prepared Ping Pong
- 10.00–17.00
Flux Concerts free
Featuring a selection of events and scores
-
16.00–17.30
Make a Salad free
Artist Alison Knowles creates a giant salad serves it to an audience of 300 people.
- 21.00–23.00
Nan Goldin with Patrick Wolf and John Kelly
Patrick Wolf and John Kelly perform in front of Nan Goldin's iconic slideshows.
Sunday 25 May 2008
- 11.00–14.30
Flux Olympiad free
Games and field events 11.00–12.30
Individual and team races 14.00–15.00
- 11.00–15.00
Art Talks free
Artists, musicians, comedians and others select theit favourite artwork at Tate Modern
- 10.30–16.00
Play free
Flux Chess, Blow Soccer, Prepared Ping Pong
- 13.00–14.00
Flux Concerts free
Alison Knowles conducts a concent using newspaper and books as musical instuments.
- 16.30–17.30
Flux Concerts free
Featuring a selection of events and scores
- 21.00
Early Computer Animation Screening free
A screening celebrating the technical and aesthetic advances of early computer animation
Monday 26 May 2008
- 11.00–14.30
Flux Olympiad free
Games and field events 11.00–12.30
Individual and team races 14.00–15.30
- 11.00–15.00
Art Talks free
Artists, musicians, comedians and others select theit favourite artwork at Tate Modern
- 10.30–16.00
Play free
Flux Chess, Blow Soccer, Prepared Ping Pong
- 13.00–14.00
Flux Concerts free
Selections from works by George Maciunas
- 16.30–17.30
Flux Concerts free
Featuring a selection of events and scores
- 19.00–22.00
Graffiti Research Lab free
New York artists Graffiti Research Lab lead a workshop for young people.
Throughout The Long Weekend there is also the chance to see the exhibitions Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, Street & Studio and Street Art, and the Tate Modern collection displays.
