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Michael Smith – Performance Room | BMW Tate Live
Michael Smith is a video, performance and installation artist known for his eponymous personae, Mike, the hopeful innocent who continually falls victim to trends and fashions outside his grasp, and Baby Ikki, the melancholic toddler who...
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Meschac Gaba – Museum of Contemporary African Art | TateShots
Meschac Gaba's 'Museum of Contemporary African Art' is an immersive twelve-room installation, a 'museum within a museum', which is currently sprawling through Tate Modern. It includes its own shop, library and restaurant as well as less...
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Meiro Koizumi – BMW Tate Live: Performance Room
A second chance to watch Meiro Koizumi’s performance of The Birth of Tragedy captured live Thursday, 13 June, 2013 at Tate Modern. nFor the Performance Room, Meiro Koizumi has adapted his 2012 video It’s a Comedy, which blurs the lines...
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Jérôme Bel – BMW Tate Live: Performance Room
Jérôme Bel’s performance of Shirtology @ Tate, captured live Thursday, 22 March, 2012 at Tate Modern. In Shirtology @ Tate one performer removes a collection of t-shirts in order to display different messages. Bel investigates the...
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Peter Blake – The Museum of Everything | TateShots
Sir Peter Blake has a magpie's eye for collecting curiosities, so when James Brett of The Museum of Everything invited him to curate an exhibition there and to include some of his own unusual objects in the mix, he leapt at the chance....
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Sandra Phillips on Surveillance – Exposed at Tate Modern
SFMOMA's Curator of Photography Sandra Phillips describes how contemporary artists like Sophie Calle and Benjamin Lowry have started to talk back to surveillance. Sandra Phillips is Guest Curator of Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and...
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Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho – 'How Can You Define Contemporary Art?' | TateShots
South Korean artists Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho use science fiction to reflect on society and its future. In this interview, the artist duo present several of their artworks, including their newly commissioned film ‘Anomaly Strolls’...
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Ilya and Emilia Kabakov – ‘The Viewer is the Same as the Artist’ | TateShots
The Kabakovs are widely known for their large-scale installations and wide range of paintings and sculptures which draw upon the visual culture and symbolism of the former Soviet Union. From dreary communal apartments to propaganda art...
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Marguerite Humeau – ‘Each Installation is an Ecosystem’ | TateShots
Marguerite Humeau combines her interest for ancient myths and science to create surreal large scale installations that explore ideas of past, present, life and death. The French artist invited us to her London studio before visiting the...
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Peter Liversidge – The Bridge
Artist Peter Liversidge has written a unique cycle of songs in response to Tate Modern’s building, its history and its place in contemporary life. Inspired by conversations the artist held with gallery staff, construction workers,...
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Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa – Performance Room | BMW Tate Live
Using theatre, drawing, literature and sculpture, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa’s work conjures live and sculptural representations that explore themes of loss, identity and displacement. For this new commission 'Illusion of Matter', he...
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Otobong Nkanga – Performance Room | BMW Tate Live
Otobong Nkanga’s new performance Diaoptasia is an examination of acts of framing. Exploring the process of live editing, the artist’s body, sliding screens, slithers of text and the camera are devices that both cut the frame and create...
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Peter Blake – Everybody Razzle Dazzle | TateShots
This week we look at Sir Peter Blake’s pop inspired dazzle design currently decorating the Mersey commuter ferry Snowdrop. Sir Peter’s new artwork Everybody Razzle Dazzle was created in honour of dazzle painting – a form of camouflage...
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What Makes an Artist? Grayson Perry in Conversation with Sarah Thornton | Tate Talks
Who do artists think they are? What myths are they rejecting and propagating? What is the social role of artists in different countries around the world today? How do artists negotiate power? Self-belief? Recognition? Author Sarah...
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Alexandra Bachzetsis – BMW Tate Live: Performance Room
Alexandra Bachzetsis presents From A to B via C, a new work created for three dancers for a theatre, and further transformed for an exhibition space and performed live to an online audience as part of the 2014 Performance Room series....
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John Grant – It Doesn't Matter to Him (Live at Tate Britain) | TateShots
American singer-songwriter John Grant draws inspiration from Tate's Britain's 'British Folk Art' exhibition, as he performs his track 'It Doesn't Matter to Him'. The exhibition introduces some extraordinary and surprising works by folk...
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Carl Andre – 'Works of Art Don't Mean Anything' | TateShots
In this interview filmed at the artist's New York apartment, Carl Andre discusses how materials are a natural part of his life, and looks back at when his work hit the headlines, recalling criticism such as 'you can't make art out of...
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Daniel Linehan – BMW Tate Live: Performance Room
A second chance to watch Daniel Linehan’s performance of untitled duet captured live Thursday, 12 December, 2013 at Tate Modern. For the final Performance Room event of 2013 Daniel Linehan presents a new performance, untitled duet....
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Tony Oursler's Influence Machine | TateShots
Ghostly presences haunt Tate Modern's riverside in 'The Influence Machine', an installation by American artist Tony Oursler. Conceived as a kind of 'psycho-landscape', the work consists of monologues performed by ethereal figures which...
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Harrell Fletcher – BMW Tate Live: Performance Room
In this work, artist Harrell Fletcher invited a busker to take his performances from the tube stations and streets of London into the Tate gallery. Harrell Fletcher’s work often takes the form of socially engaged collaborative and...
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Bob & Roberta Smith on Tate Britain
This is Britain: The Home of British Art Artist Bob & Roberta Smith draws a powerful comparison between two paintings in Tate's collection which capture destruction, loss and man's obsession with the end of the world
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Pablo Bronstein – BMW Tate Live: Performance Room
A second chance to watch Pablo Bronstein’s performance of Constantinople Kaleidoscope captured live Thursday, 26 April, 2012 at Tate Modern. Performance Room is a series of performances commissioned and conceived exclusively for the...
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Chris Dercon Introduces BMW Tate Live: Performance Room
BMW Tate Live: Performance Room -- a pioneering programme of live online performances reaching international audiences across world time zones. BMW Tate Live: Jérôme Bel online-only LIVE performance, 20:00 GMT, Thurs 22 Mar For more...
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Ray Harryhausen on John Martin | TateShots
Ray Harryhausen is a legend in the film world. His opus which includes special effects for 'Jason and the Argonauts' and 'One Million Years B.C' changed the face of cinema and inspired filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg and Peter...