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DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture at Tate Liverpool
From 1 May 2009 leading cultural figures from different disciplines will be displaying their own unique take on sculpture as part of DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture, at Tate Liverpool. Transforming the first and second floor...
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Katie Paterson – Mapping Dead Stars | TateShots
Katie Paterson's work is a map of dead stars, 27,000 of them, or all that have so far been observed and recorded. But, as she tells us in this film, if you were going to make a map of all the dead stars it would be the size of the Earth....
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Paola Pivi – One Thousand Screams | TateShots
For 'The Long Weekend' in 2009 at Tate modern, Italian artist Paola Pivi created '1000', a work in which one thousand people descend en masse to the mezzanine bridge, then scream in ear-splitting unison. The artist, preferring not to...
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Michelangelo Pistoletto | TateShots
A key artist of the arte povera movement, Michelangelo Pistoletto came to London in May to recreate a seminal 1966 performance in which he rolled a ball of newspapers through the streets of Turin. At Tate Modern he pasted together...
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Adrian Searle on the Venice Biennale 2009 | TateShots
Its that time again, when the international art community packs its bags and heads for Venice. The 53rd Venice Biennale is now open, and in this film, made in collaboration with the Guardian newspaper, art critic Adrian Searle presents...
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Jennifer West – 'Skaters Use the City' | TateShots
The LA-based artist Jennifer West came to Tate Modern to create a new film live in the gallery. Instead of cameras, her process involves manipulating and making marks on the celluloid film itself. For this performance ink-covered film...
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Elmgreen and Dragset at the Venice Biennale 2009 | TateShots
In a first for the Venice Biennale, two national pavilions collaborated on a single project. The catalysts are Michael Elmgreen (Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (Norway), who have worked together since 1995. For the 2009 Biennale, they...
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Jeremy Deller – Procession | TateShots
Artist Jeremy Deller, who won the Turner Prize in 2004, is getting ready for 'Procession', a parade he is organising for the Manchester International Festival in July. Comprising over twenty elements from all the boroughs of Greater...
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Marina Abramović Answers Your Questions | TateShots
TateShots' army of Twitter friends sent in questions for uncompromising performance artist Marina Abramović. We catch up with her while shes in the UK preparing for a residency at the Manchester International Festival, where she will...
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East-West Divan at the Venice Biennale 2009 | TateShots
As well as official national pavilions, Venice is home to a number of collateral exhibitions and events, often representing people and places that wouldn't normally get a look in. Former Tate curator Jemima Montagu is presenting an...
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Classified: Contemporary Art at Tate Britain
Classified will offer visitors to Tate Britain the opportunity to see exceptional works by leading contemporary artists and to explore the recent development of Tates outstanding collection. Artists represented in the exhibition will be:...
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Francis Upritchard at the Venice Biennale 2009 | TateShots
New Zealand-born, London-based artist Francis Upritchard is represented her country at 2009's Biennale. Taking over three rooms of a palazzo, 'Save Yourself' is an imaginary landscape populated by strange miniature figures, who seem to...
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Views on the Venice Biennale 2009 | TateShots
The Venice Biennale is attended by tens of thousands of people, and on the first weekend you can't move for artists, curators and journalists. We asked a number of them, including critic Adrian Searle and artists Richard Wentworth, Bob...
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What is Expanded Cinema?
Works identified as Expanded Cinema often open up questions surrounding the spectator's construction of time/space relations, activating the spaces of cinema and narrative as well as other contexts of media reception. In doing so it...
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Curing the Vampire: Elena Poniatowska, Gene Ware and Tilda Swinton
Part of a series of interviews undertaken by artist, Lynn Hershman Leeson (playing Gene Ware, a character from the virtual world of Second Life) and actress, Tilda Swinton. In this episode, Elena Poniatowska, a renowned journalist and...
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Curing the Vampire: Gilberto Gil, Gene Ware and Tilda Swinton
Part of a series of interviews undertaken by artist, Lynn Hershman Leeson (playing Gene Ware, a character from the virtual world of Second Life) and actress, Tilda Swinton. In this episode, Gilberto Gil discusses his exile from Brazil...
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Joan Jonas at the Venice Biennale 2009 | TateShots
For an artist of Joan Jonass standing, its hard to believe that this is her first time exhibiting at the Venice Biennale. In her show at the Arsenale she presented a single work entitled 'Reading Dante', the result of a long-standing...
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Cyprien Gaillard | TateShots
Artist Cyprien Gaillard presented his electronic opera Desniansky Raion at Tate Modern in 2009. The triptych of films features some startling images, including battling gangs and a son et lumière building demolition. In this video...
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David Batchelor – Studio Visit | TateShots
We joined artist David Batchelor in his studio to ask him about 'Spectrum of Brick Lane' (2007). An assemblage of salvaged material transformed into a tower of colourful lightboxes, the sculpture illustrates Batchelor's interest in city...
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Turner and the Masters – Turner's Rivalry
Turner and the Masters opens 23rd September 2009 at Tate Britain. www.tate.org.uk Music by Sound Designers Anonymous www.illanon.com
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Damien Hirst Seeks Identical Twins
Are you an identical twin? Artist Damien Hirst would like you to appear in an artwork at London's Tate Modern. Visit www.tate.org.uk/go/twins to apply.
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Roman Ondák at the Venice Biennale 2009 | TateShots
The artist Roman Ondák is known for making artworks so subtle that many people dont know they are there at all. A piece in the Tate Collection, for example, consists of ordinary people queuing up at various places in the gallery. In...
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Jim Lambie – Studio Visit | TateShots
TateShots visited Glasgow to meet artist Jim Lambie in his studio. One of Lambies best known works 'Zobop' was shown at Tate Liverpools Colour Chart exhibition. In this site-specific installation, coloured vinyl tape is used to trace...
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Turner and the Masters – Turner's Ambition
Turner and the Masters opens 23rd September 2009 at Tate Britain. www.tate.org.uk Music by Sound Designers Anonymous www.illanon.com