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Anthea Hamilton | Turner Prize Nominee 2016 | TateShots
Anthea Hamilton presents Lichen! Libido! (London!) Chastity! a re-staging of her nominated solo exhibition at SculptureCenter, New York. Working across sculpture, installation, performance and video, Hamilton uses her research into...
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Josephine Pryde | Turner Prize Nominee 2016 | TateShots
Josephine Pryde presents work from her nominated exhibition lapses in Thinking By the person i Am at CCA Wattis, San Francisco, alongside a series of new works she has created to mark the time between her nomination for the Turner Prize...
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby – Inhabiting Multiple Spaces | TateShots
Drawing on art historical, political and personal references, Njideka Akunyili Crosby creates densely layered figurative compositions that, precise in style, nonetheless conjure the complexity of contemporary experience. Akunyili Crosby...
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Recognition – The A.I. Connecting Art to Everyday Life
Broadcaster and comedian Iain Lee takes a tour of this year's IK Prize winning project 'Recognition'. 'Recognition' is an artificial intelligence program that compares up-to-the-minute photojournalism with British art from the Tate...
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Cildo Meireles – 'Art is a Free Territory'
The Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles is widely recognised as one of the leaders in the international development of Conceptual Art. This documentary, made in 2008 by award-winning director Gerald Fox, presents an intimate portrait of the...
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John Gerrard – ‘Video Can No Longer Be Considered Experimental’ | TateShots
Irish artist John Gerrard has taken digital technology usually employed by the commercial gaming industry to create virtual landscapes that simulate extremely detailed and authentic rural American farms and terrains. His computer...
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Louise Nevelson – ‘New York is My Mirror’ | TateShots
A childhood immigrant to the United States from Russia, Louise Nevelson studied painting before coming to prominence as a sculptor in the late 1950s. Gathering found objects from the urban environment around her studio in New York, she...
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Michael Dean | Turner Prize Nominee 2016 | TateShots
Michael Dean presents Sic Glyphs, a combination of works from his nominated exhibitions at South London Gallery and de Appel, Amsterdam. Dean starts his process with writing, which he then gives a physical form. He creates moulds and...
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Wifredo Lam | TateShots
Wifredo Lam was born in Cuba in 1902 of mixed heritage, and pursued a successful artistic career on both sides of the Atlantic. He was closely associated Pablo Picasso and members of the surrealist movement like André Breton. In this...
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Barkley L. Hendricks – 'I Want to Be Memorable' | TateShots
Barkley L. Hendricks is an American painter and photographer best known for his realist and post-modern portraits of people living in urban areas, beginning in the 1960s and 70s and continuing to the present. Family Jules: NNN (No Naked...
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Doris Salcedo on Bogotá – 'The Forces Here Are Brutal' | Artist Cities
Doris Salcedo is an artist who lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia. The artist makes sculptures and installations in response to her research into the experiences of those affected by violence, particularly by the civil war in her native...
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Art Hoe Collective Meets Lorna Simpson | Tate Collective
Amandla Stenberg and Mars from Art Hoe Collective meet with Brooklyn based artist Lorna Simpson, discussing the inspiration behind the #ArtHoe movement and how it relates to Simpson’s work. Art Hoe Collective is an online platform...
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Akram Zaatari – Photographs, YouTube and Memory | TateShots
Akram Zaatari is a Lebanese filmmaker, photographer and archivist. He has produced more than forty videos, a dozen books and countless installations of photographic material, all related to themes including excavation, political...
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Sheela Gowda – 'Art Is About How You Look At Things' | TateShots
Sheela Gowda is an artist living and working in Bengalaru (formerly Bangalore), India. The artist moved from painting to three-dimensional work in the 1990s in reaction to India’s political unease. Gowda’s work is rooted in her...
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Tarek Atoui – 'Sound Is a Physical Phenomenon' | TateShots
Tarek Atoui's experimental and performance led compositions use a combination of computer generated electro-acoustic sounds as well as man-made and historical instruments. As part of BMW Tate Live, Atoui created a series of new music...
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul – 'I Escape Into the Movies' | TateShots
Cannes Palme d'Or winning filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul grew up in Khon Kaen in north-eastern Thailand. As a young boy he was fascinated by the local storytelling traditions as well as the science-fiction and fantasy films he...
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Nazgol Ansarinia on Tehran – 'Neighbourhoods Are Changing So Fast' | Artist Cities
Nazgol Ansarinia is an artist who lives and works in Tehran, Iran. The artist takes experiences, objects and events that relate to contemporary Iranian daily life, and explores how they relate to a larger social context. Ansarinia has...
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Louise Bourgeois – 'I Transform Hate Into Love' | TateShots
Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911 where her parents ran a tapestry gallery. At 27 she moved to New York City after marrying American art historian Robert Goldwater. She began her career with paintings and drawings in the 1940s...
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Sigur Rós x Tate Modern – States of Matter | TateShots
In an exclusive collaboration with Orri and Georg from Sigur Rós we take you on an imaginative journey through the new Tate Modern. The full interactive experience can be accessed on desktops here: http://statesofmatter.tate.org.uk To...
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Mabel x Tate Modern – Talk About Forever | Tate
Rising songwriter and artist Mabel has created a video project to commemorate the opening of the new Tate Modern building. The video is directed by acclaimed choreographer Holly Blakey (Florence & The Machine, Jessie Ware) and the song...
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Nigel Henderson | Animating the Archives
Discover the work of photographer Nigel Henderson through the Tate archives. We speak with Professor Victoria Walsh as well as the current residents of the artist's former home, where he captured the life of his community. Nigel...
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Mona Hatoum – 'Nothing Is a Finished Project' | TateShots
Mona Hatoum creates a challenging vision of our world, exposing its contradictions and complexities. TateShots visited the artist during the install of her first major survey at Tate Modern, covering 35 years from her early radical...
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Adwoa Aboah – Performing for the Camera | Tate
Adwoa Aboah, model and founder of @GurlsTalk, reflects on what it is to perform for the camera. Aboah has spent her career performing for the camera and is particularly conscious of the artificial personas and identities the camera can...
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Hito Steyerl – 'Being Invisible Can Be Deadly' | TateShots
The German artist Hito Steyerl addresses the way digital images are created, shared and archived. Her film 'How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File' (2013) takes the form of an instructional video which flips...