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guide to tate modern article continues - Dropping in to Tate Modern's new underground oil tank spaces come early july might mean seeing a performance of minimalist dance, taking part in a debate about what it's to be an immigrant or experiencing work by an artist who most recently filmed naked men playing five-a-side football.
www.newartnetwork.net/tate-modern - The gallery has revealed information on the Tanks, called the earth's first museum space dedicated permanently to reside art, installation and performance. They'll open on 18 July, Ten days ahead of the Olympics, and be filled come early july and autumn having a 15-week festival of art. Tate Modern director, Nicholas Serota, known as the Tanks incredible spaces and said the festival was obviously a very exciting moment for Tate. As the gallery had been an enthusiastic collector and exhibitor of installation and live art, the Tanks offered something new, he was quoted saying. "The public needs to engage these works in a really different way from simply moving in with a gallery and observing the task on to the floor or even a wall. "The Tanks are the first spaces dedicated permanently to live art, installation and performance in any museum building anywhere in the world." The new spaces are three 30-metre-wide concrete oil tanks decommissioned greater than 30 years ago. One will be utilized for back-of-house as the other two will permanently show live art, performance, film and installation in addition to hosting symposiums and conferences. The East Tank will probably be bought out come early july with a single new work with a Korean artist, Sung Hwan Kim, who will tell an account using drawing and writing along with music, video, sound and sculpture.
Work in the South Tank is going to be "constantly changing, constantly evolving, constantly shifting. Any time you come down you could see something completely different from that which you saw the previous day, or even the previous week," said the curator of film, Stuart Comer. The very first project will feature the choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker adapting a minimalist dance work she first performed in 1982 called Fase: Four Movements for the Music of Steve Reich, comprising three duets and one solo.
Read more - Another artist inside the South Tank would be the young Briton Eddie Peake who this coming year showed a show of men playing football naked. Comer said: "He is extremely interested in aspects of voyeurism and sexuality, in particular the male body. He'll be having a new task for this space addressing those interests also to the area itself."
