Artist Roman Ondak invites you to take part in the collective performance Measuring the Universe. The artwork is based on a set of instructions by the artist and carried out by Tate facilitators.
You are invited to choose a location in the Turbine Hall to have your height measured, name marked and the date that you take part recorded. Over the four days of Tate Modern’s Birthday Weekender, the walls will gradually fill with individual markings and names, creating a collective drawing and an ephemeral performance.
Measuring the Universe expresses Ondak’s interest in merging art and everyday life and reflects on our experience of the passing of time. The artist comments: ‘The idea is taken from a habit of parents to measure children. I was thinking about this very peripheral and marginal moment of everyday life to be expanded and…transformed.’ In Measuring the Universe a private individual action is transformed into a public and collective action within the museum.
