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help guide to tate modern Read more - Dropping in to Tate Modern's new underground oil tank spaces come july 1st might mean seeing a performance of minimalist dance, enjoying a debate about what it is to be an immigrant or experiencing work by a designer who most recently filmed naked men playing five-a-side football.
Read more - The gallery has revealed specifics of the Tanks, described as the earth's first museum space dedicated permanently to reside art, installation and gratifaction. They are going to open on 18 July, Ten days prior to the Olympics, and become filled this summer and autumn using a 15-week festival of art. Tate Modern director, Nicholas Serota, referred to as Tanks incredible spaces and said the festival would be a extreme fun moment for Tate. While the gallery had always been a passionate collector and exhibitor of installation and live art, the Tanks offered new things, he was quoted saying. "The public needs to engage with these works in a very different way from simply going in to a gallery and observing the job on to the floor or a wall. "The Tanks are the first spaces dedicated permanently to reside art, installation and gratifaction in a museum building anywhere in the world." The newest spaces are three 30-metre-wide concrete oil tanks decommissioned more than 30 years ago. One will be used as back-of-house while the other two will permanently show live art, performance, film and installation along with hosting symposiums and conferences. The East Tank will be bought out come early july by way of a single new work by a Korean artist, Sung Hwan Kim, that will tell a tale using drawing and writing as well as music, video, sound and sculpture.
Work in the South Tank will probably be "constantly changing, constantly evolving, constantly shifting. When you dropped you may see something completely different from that which you saw the day before, or perhaps the previous week," said the curator of film, Stuart Comer. The first project will feature the choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker adapting a minimalist dance work she first performed in 1982 called Fase: Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, comprising three duets and something solo.
www.newartnetwork.net/tate-modern - Another artist within the South Tank will be the young Briton Eddie Peake who this year showed a movie of males playing football naked. Comer said: "He is quite interested in facets of voyeurism and sexuality, in particular the male body. He will be having a new task for this space addressing those interests and to the space itself."
