Tate Events

27-05-2008 Late At Tate: Faisal Abduallah

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:21:45 +0100

Join artist Faisal Abdu'Allah as he discusses ways in which contemporary art can challenge preconceived ideas. Drawing on his own work as well as the Nahnou Together project, he will explore how the displays challenge the familiar presentation of 'the Middle East' in the media.

27-05-2008 Late At Tate: Toby Treves

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:25:07 +0100

Art historian Toby Treves discusses the two Paolozzi sculptures Cyclops (1957) and their brutal anti-aesthetic in this room of work by the Independent Group with reference to Return of the Gods, on display in the Duveens.

27-05-2008 Late At Tate: Colin Cruise

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:20:40 +0100

Colin Cruise teaches art history at the School of Art, the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and tonight will be discussing the painting The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon (1881-1898).

27-05-2008 Late At Tate: Michael Archer

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:23:28 +0100

Michael Archer, critic and writer (Art Monthly, Artforum), writes mainly on art since 1960. Tonight he will be discussing the work by Lucas, Warren, Linder and Mackie contained in the room Love me Tender and how this aesthetic resonates within the art world and beyond.

27-05-2008 Late At Tate: Chris Stevens

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:19:46 +0100

Chris Stephens, curator of modern British art and head of displays at Tate Britain will be discussing the aesthetics of one of the most important artists in post war Britain.

27-05-2008 Late At Tate: Jo Melvin

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:22:41 +0100

Senior lecturer at Chelsea School of art, Jo Melvin is an expert on the work of Studio International and will be talking in this newly opened display on the impact of this group.

27-05-2008 Late At Tate: Brian Dillon

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:18:48 +0100

Writer and critic Brian Dillon is UK editor of Cabinet Magazine, and author of the memoir In the Dark Room, and will be discussing the work of Tacita Dean on display in Drawn from the Collection.

28-06-2008 Flavia Muller Medeiros & Nasrin Tabatabai Part 2

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:07:17 +0100

As a prologue within a prologue, Flávia Müller Medeiros invited artist Nasrin Tabatabai for a discussion during which they take two of their previous works as the starting point to question and reflect on notions of exile.

28-06-2008 Flavia Muller Medeiros & Nasrin Tabatabai Part 1

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:07:07 +0100

28-06-2008 TJ Demos

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:56:22 +0100

TJ Demos is a writer, critic and lecturer in the department of history of art at University College London. In the second critical debate around the themes of the Tate Triennial, he talked about exile and contemporary art in the context of 'Altermodern'.

28-06-2008 Friedrich Kittler: Media Matters Keynote Speech

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:44:49 +0100

One of today's foremost media theorists, Friedrich Kittler has been hailed as the 'Derrida of the digital age'. This exciting event offers a rare opportunity to hear Professor Kittler in person.

28-06-2008 Media Matters Symposium Part 3

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:50:48 +0100

This symposium brings together a range of major thinkers and practitioners in the fields of cultural theory, film and digital arts to explore our complex relationship with the technologies that surround us.

28-06-2008 Media Matters Symposium Part 2

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:50:06 +0100

28-06-2008 Media Matters Symposium Part 1

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:49:25 +0100

20-06-2008 The Liquid Page Part 4

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:06:25 +0100

The Liquid Page invites academics and artists to explore the ways in which both the book and the act of reading are being reshaped, expanded and coaxed into new directions and hybrid forms.

20-06-2008 The Liquid Page Part 3

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:05:48 +0100

The Liquid Page invites academics and artists to explore the ways in which both the book and the act of reading are being reshaped, expanded and coaxed into new directions and hybrid forms.

20-06-2008 The Liquid Page Part 2

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:05:05 +0100

The Liquid Page invites academics and artists to explore the ways in which both the book and the act of reading are being reshaped, expanded and coaxed into new directions and hybrid forms.

20-06-2008 The Liquid Page Part 1

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:04:14 +0100

The Liquid Page invites academics and artists to explore the ways in which both the book and the act of reading are being reshaped, expanded and coaxed into new directions and hybrid forms.

19-06-2008 Cy Twombly Symposium Part 4

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:36:20 +0100

Coinciding with the major Cy Twombly exhibition at Tate Modern, this symposium will present new research on the artist and a rare opportunity to examine work from across his career in painting, sculpture and drawing from an exciting range of perspectives.

19-06-2008 Cy Twombly Symposium Part 3

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:35:57 +0100

19-06-2008 Cy Twombly Symposium Part 2

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:35:24 +0100

19-06-2008 Cy Twombly Symposium Part 1

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:31:55 +0100

27-06-2008 Art of Travel Study Day Part 2

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:17:39 +0100

This study day focuses on the history and relevance of travelling and migration to artists in the age of globalisation. Drawing on the notion of the artist-traveller in the age of migration we will address crucial questions such as: how do tropes of 'travel', 'displacement' and 'migration' play out in contemporary artistic practice? In what ways are artists responding to the challenges of globalisation?

27-06-2008 Art of Travel Study Day Part 1

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:17:17 +0100

21-06-2008 Bruce Goff Symposia: Stephen Prina

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:48:40 +0100

American artist Stephen Prina is highly regarded for his hybrid, intricate practice, which plays with the role of the artwork within cultural and institutional networks

21-06-2008 Bruce Goff Symposia: On Bruce Goff

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:46:27 +0100

Forms and ideas Goff proposed long before the ease of digital manipulation, and his pioneering use of found materials and penchant for reflective surfaces now resonate with practices of many architects internationally

14-06-2008 Talking Art: Susan Hiller

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:31:16 +0100

Susan Hiller is renowned for making works which investigate often overlooked everyday phenomena. She employs sound, video, text and photography, often creating large-scale installations. Hiller has been described as a feminist, a conceptualist and a para-conceptualist.

12-06-2008 A Public Reading: Combatant Status Review Tribunals pp.002954-003064 - Part 4

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:21:54 +0100

This is a live reading of the transcripts of eighteen Combatant Status Review Tribunals held at the US military prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba between July 2004 and March 2005. This 110-page excerpt is a small fraction of the massive collection of transcripts released on the internet by the US Department of Defense from the 558 tribunals held over the nine-month period.

12-06-2008 A Public Reading: Combatant Status Review Tribunals pp.002954-003064 - Part 3

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:20:42 +0100

12-06-2008 A Public Reading: Combatant Status Review Tribunals pp.002954-003064 - Part 2

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:19:46 +0100

12-06-2008 A Public Reading: Combatant Status Review Tribunals pp.002954-003064 - Part 1

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:18:09 +0100

31-05-2008 Talking Art: Cornelia Parker

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:43:29 +0100

Cornelia Parker has shot at objects, thrown them from cliffs, blown them up and rolled over them with a steam roller. Her sculptural processes have been described as ‘mimicking cartoon deaths’. Parker’s work is both dramatic and delicate, powerful and intricate – out of destruction she creates tragedy and beauty. Cornelia Parker is interviewed by writer and curator Lisa LeFeuvre.

29-05-2008 David Goldblatt

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:27:39 +0100

To coincide with his current exhibition at Haunch of Venison Gallery renowned South African photographer David Goldblatt discusses his work with curator and art historian Tamar Garb.

21-05-2008 Robert Storr in Conversation with David A Bailey

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:26:02 +0100

In this first London event of the International Curators Forum, an institution which aims to animate and develop the international curatorial community, curator and artist Robert Storr and curator David A Bailey discuss the Venice Biennale. Storr reflects on his role as Commissioner in 2007 and both contemplate the Biennale’s legacy and future

02-05-2008 Late at Tate Britain: Drawing on Jarman

Wed, 21 May 2008 18:08:57 +0100

Derek Jarman (1942–94) is best known as an iconoclastic filmmaker and polemical gay activist who channeled unparalleled energy into painting, writing, gardening and all manner of cultural activity.

25-04-2008 Re-Viewing the Camden Town Group Part 2

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:53:32 +0100

As part of the programme of events organised for the Modern Painters exhibition, this is the first symposium solely dedicated to the Camden Town Group. The social and art historical contexts of the Group are examined, particularly modernity, modern environments and class. The materiality of their work is also discussed, with reference to conservation, research and market value.

25-04-2008 Re-Viewing the Camden Town Group Part 1

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:51:40 +0100

29-04-2008 The Life and Times of Edward Burra

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:16:57 +0100

dward Burra's paintings of Harlem in the 1930s captured a moment in history epitomised by Jazz and street life. Drawing on the special display in the Goodison room, this study afternoon will examine Burra's paintings of this period with talks by artist and curator David A Bailey and Professor Jane Stevenson, author of Edward Burra: Twentieth Century Eye.

16-05-2008 The Return of the Gods Study Afternoon

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:07:39 +0100

Sculptures of mythical characters by Canova, Flaxman, Deare and others were eagerly collected and exhibited by British connoisseurs. This Study afternoon will examine the ways in which neo classical sculpture was appreciated in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

29-04-2008 Real Architecture Spring 2008: Farshid Moussavi/Foreign Office Architects

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:14:42 +0100

Foreign Office Architects presents the recently completed department store and Cineplex in Leicester. The store's striking facade, comprised of a double layer skin with a lace-like pattern, acts as a net curtain, both allowing and blocking views from the street. The Cineplex is a large blank volume clad in stainless steel shingles. Moussavi will discuss ornamentation and designing the building envelope.

17-04-2008 Peter Campus in conversation with Douglas Gordon

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:52:06 +0100

For this unique event Peter Campus will be in conversation with Turner Prize-winning artist Douglas Gordon and David A. Ross, formerly Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Working in photography, video, film and sculpture Douglas Gordon tempts viewers into becoming more aware of the shifting subjectivity of their perception of the world. A long-time admirer of Campus’ work, Gordon is particularly concerned with the viewer's psychological relationship with the moving image.

13-04-2008 QaA with Philippe Grandrieux

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:15:07 +0100

Philippe Grandrieux is the director of numerous documentary-essays, and two features constituting the most advanced point of contemporary cinematic research.

13-03-2008 Alfredo Jaar

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:45:11 +0100

Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect and filmmaker based in New York. He presents his work in the context of his current exhibition at the South London Gallery, which focuses on his long-standing engagement with the socio-political realities of African countries.

07-03-2008 Michael Palin in Conversation with Tim Marlow

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:26:36 +0100

Actor, writer and traveller Michael Palin and art historian Tim Marlow discuss their continuing fascination with the Camden Town Group. They consider in particular how character, realism and a sense of place are revealed within paintings of the period, as well as in works of theatre, fiction, history and travel.

27-03-2008 The Lives and Letters of the Camden Town Group

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:31:37 +0100

This study day will explore the social and art historical context of the Camden Town Group with a lecture from Tate curator, Nicola Moorby, and an archive visit with Emily White, Tate Archive curator. In conjunction with the exhibition Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group, the afternoon will present an opportunity to examine letters, photographs and other original archive material and to learn more about the Group's fascination with modern society and Edwardian London.

24-04-2008 Talking Art: Glenn Ligon

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:54:34 +0100

New York-based artist Glenn Ligon is renowned for works made in a variety of media, including sculpture, neon, drawing and painting, which explore issues around race, sexuality, identity, representation and language. Ligon is interviewed by Patricia Bickers, editor of Art Monthly.

01-04-2008 Real Architecture Spring 2008: Nick Johnson/Urban Splash

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:01:12 +0100

Urban Splash introduces New Islington, one of the developer's ambitious urban regeneration projects. Following Will Alsop's plan, the 30-acre site east of Manchester city centre comprises 1,700 new homes, a school, offices and retail and leisure spaces, built around a new canal and water park. The project includes schemes by FAT and other exciting architecture practices.

26-03-2008 Supernatural Presents... Digital Dreams - Part 1

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:35:32 +0100

While continuing to examine the development of the various forms of digital visual arts, the new series will explore the current crossover in Art, Design and Technology. We will be broadening the spectrum of speakers from the previous event to include representatives from the fields of Product Design and Games.
They will also be joined by scientists and industry heavyweights behind the software and hardware we use to visually express ourselves whose vision and understanding of the creative process ultimately allow us to explore our Digital Dreams.

26-03-2008 Supernatural Presents... Digital Dreams - Part 2

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:36:00 +0100

12-04-2008 Metropolis and Modernity: Modern Painters Study Day

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:18:34 +0100

To coincide with Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group, this study day examines the Camden Town Group in the context of other early twentieth century artistic movements in relation to literary and other discourses on urban experience, modernity, Britishness, class and gender. Invited speakers include Alan Munton, Bernard Vere and Alexandra Warwick.

15-03-2008 Modern Painters: Creative Writing Workshop

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:27:43 +0100

This two day creative writing course takes the paintings of the Camden Town Group as inspiration. Themes of modernity and change are considered alongside responses to technology, the growth of popular entertainment and the long shadow of the First World War.

08-04-2008 Real Architecture Spring 2008: Jacques Herzog

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:38:35 +0100

Herzog & de Meuron, architects of Tate Modern, present the National Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. With an almost circular footprint, the bowl-like stadium, which seats 91,000, containing a network of bars, restaurants, hotels and shops, is expected to become a vital, urban space with a future beyond the Olympics.

03-04-2008 Association of Art Historians Annual Conference - Jeremy Deller

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:55:07 +0100

As a student of art history, a practising artist working both within and outside of the confines of the museum, and an exhibition curator, Deller will present his personal reflections on the different experiences he has encountered in his negotiation of the museum, the academy and the studio.

29-03-2008 Talking Art: Gustav Metzger

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:42:43 +0100

After a career spanning decades, Gustav Metzger is now in greater demand than ever, generating new projects as for Münster Sculpture Projects 2007 or realising earlier ideas, as with Project Stockholm, originally conceived in 1972 for the UN Environmental Conference in Stockholm. Now produced for the Sharjah Biennale (2007), the huge installation consists of 120 cars that discharge their exhaust fumes into a plastic structure.
For Talking Art, Gustav Metzger is interviewed by Andrew Wilson, Curator of Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate.

14-03-2008 Modernity in Conflict - Michael Nath

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:54:45 +0000

Michael Nath, Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Westminster, examines the contribution of Wyndham Lewis and the Vorticist movement to the formation of avant-garde artistic practice and metropolitan culture in early twentieth-century Britain.

12-03-2008 Tobias Hill

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:24:47 +0000

Poet and novelist Tobias Hill reads a selection of his poems from Zoo and Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow exploring Camden’s flora and fauna human or otherwise

08-03-2008 Knowing Art: Aesthetics and Evaluating Art - Matthew Kieran

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:49:38 +0000

It seems as if 'taste' is something over which there can’t be much argument. However, art appreciation carries on as if there are meaningful disputes. Works are deemed better than others and we seek to justify claims. How is such knowledge possible? Is it feasible to appreciate a work of art properly? How can our artistic evaluations be justified? This study day, one of a series of six, introduces historical and philosophical material to help develop individual critical understandings of art appreciation.

12-03-2008 BP British Art Lecture: Stephen Poliakoff in Conversation with Brian Dillon

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:45:22 +0000

BAFTA winning British playwright and television dramatist, Stephen Poliakoff CBE, discusses his work in conversation with writer and critic, Brian Dillon. As Poliakoff has said, "I'm very anti the social-realist tradition because I don't think the world looks like that. Dickens was right. The world is full of originals. My work is vividly coloured because that's how I see the world” and tonight he discusses his ideas and thoughts on the relationship between image-making, memory, nostalgia, and place.

06-02-2008 The Art of Giving - Part 4

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:21:22 +0000

Join Grayson Perry, Richard Wentworth, Iwona Blazwick, Julia Peyton Jones, Ed Vaizey MP, Margaret Hodge MP, Louisa Buck and Vicente Todoli, amongst others, in a fascinating conference exploring the art of giving from an artist-centred perspective.

06-02-2008 The Art of Giving - Part 3

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:24:20 +0000

06-02-2008 The Art of Giving - Part 2

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:38:31 +0000

06-02-2008 The Art of Giving - Part 1

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:38:33 +0000

07-03-2008 Stephen Smith

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:45:15 +0000

Discover the vulgar history of Camden with Stephen Smith, as a part of the exhibition 'Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group'

09-02-2008 The Tragic, Comic and Transgressive in Art

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:10:23 +0000

The appeal of beauty is straightforward but what explains the appeal of tragic, comic or transgressive art? Tragic art asks that we contemplate horrifying events, evoking unpleasant emotions and feelings of disgust, ones we would avoid in real life. In comic art we are often amused by things which would not amuse us in everyday life. Thinking about these questions and looking at works in the gallery, this study day led by Matthew Kieran asks what it is about artistic representation that explains their appeal.

08-02-2008 BP Artist Talk: David Batchelor

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:08:37 +0000

Artist David Batchelor discusses his most recent work and his fascination with the omnipresence of colour as both a unique phenomenon and an everyday experience. Batchelor’s three-dimensional works typically combine brilliant colours, often using fluorescent or neon lights, with a range of found light-industrial materials.

06-02-2008 BP Artist Talk: Peter Doig and Adrian Searle in Conversation

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:06:49 +0000

To coincide with Tate’s major Peter Doig retrospective exhibition, the artist is in conversation with Adrian Searle talking about his substantial body of work including paintings made in the last five years since his move to Trinidad in 2002.

01-02-2008 Mat Collishaw on his work, plus Connections: Dance/Architecture

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:04:01 +0000

Mat Collishaw talks about his work inspired by and reinterpreting myth. Plus, Architect and choreographer Ana Serrano is joined by architect of Return of the Gods Adam Caruso and dancer/choreographer Tom Sapsford to explore the relationship between architecture and dance.

01-02-2008 The Colour White

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:51:29 +0000

Curator of Return of the Gods, Martin Myrone is joined by Professor Richard Dyer and artist David Batchelor to explore the colour white.

02-02-2008 Talking Art: Lawrence Weiner

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Following his highly acclaimed retrospective 'As far as the eye can see' (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York), Lawrence Weiner discusses his work with art historian and critic John Slyce.

26-01-2008 Copying Eden: Inside, Outside and After Chilean Art

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Art produced inside, outside and after the constraints of dictatorship is examined in the research that culminated in the publication Copying Eden: Recent Art from Chile edited by curator Gerardo Mosquera. The author presents an overview of thirty years of art production in Chile, followed by presentations by two prominent Chilean artists and curator and writer Guy Brett.

20-10-2007 Joep Van Lieshout

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:32:44 +0000

The third interview in the new Talking Art series is artist Joep van Lieshout, founder of Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL) a team of creatives based in Rotterdam, in conversation with critic Marcus Verhagen.

25-11-2007 Film Synergies

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:17:28 +0000

In Latin America the practice of film co-production with Europe became significantly widespread in the 1990s. The event includes the screening of the 46-minute documentary Latin America in Co-production (Libia Villazana, UK/Peru 2007), which explores the mechanisms, pros and cons of this practice.

01-12-2007 Pawel Althamer

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:11:49 +0000

Polish artist Pawel Althamer discusses the performative elements of his work with curator and writer Polly Staple. Pawel Althamer’s multi-faceted practice includes sculptures, installations, autobiographical videos, and performances. Declaring that ‘we are all actors'.

24-11-2007 Talking Art - Christian Marclay

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:12:08 +0000

The fourth interview in the Tate/Art Monthly Talking Art series is between acclaimed artist Christian Marclay, renowned for his collages of music, sculpture, film and image, and art historian, Gilda Williams.

22-11-2007 Real Architecture - Peter Markli

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:07:47 +0000

Peter Märkli, one of Switzerland’s leading architects, talks about his design for a visitor centre, prominently positioned in a recent redevelopment of a pharmaceutical industrial site in central Basel.

20-11-2007 'I'm Not a Woman Writer' - Toril Moi

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:04:02 +0000

Recent theories of women, sex and gender have challenged the category of woman. The value of literature (and the other arts) has also been called into question. Have the new gender theories made feminist criticism obsolete? Does it still make sense to claim, as the first feminist critics did, that literature and other arts are crucially important to feminists? Professor Toril Moi addresses these questions in the 2007 Feminist Theory lecture.

16-11-2007 The Archival Impulse - Part 2

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:55:40 +0000

Bringing together leading artists, archivists and theorists, this study day explores why the archive has become a central issue in contemporary artistic strategy and examines how the archive has been figured, contested and constructed by artists. It will also examine a range of theoretical thinking and critical engagement with the past in order to provide a creative space for the future.

16-11-2007 The Archival Impulse - Part 1

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:54:45 +0000

13-11-2007 Real Architecture: David Adjaye

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:59:10 +0000

David Adjaye proposes a certain formation of 'publicness'. In this session of Real Architecture, Adjaye talks about the Denver project and the problem of architects to repropose the concept of the public space.

17-10-2007 Real Architecture: Michiel Riedijk

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:41:58 +0000

Real Architecture examines some of the most significant contemporary architects and projects and presents a dynamic cross-section of current trends in international architectural practice. In the first of the series, Architect Michiel Riedijk talks about his new project.

01-11-2007 Mario Ybarra Jr

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:17:18 +0000

Los Angeles-based artist Mario Ybarra Jr draws attention to forms of culture that exist in the margins of the mainstream. Verging on the pseudo-anthropological, Ybarra’s work examines hidden cultural histories: often alluding to or parodying the street culture of West Coast US. His reference points span from the activities of inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison, to a social exploration of the expanding numbers of barbershops across African-American communities. Ybarra will be discussing his practice prior to his performance, which will bring together barbers from across London to participate in a hair-cutting competition at Tate Modern.

03-10-2007 Steven Dwoskin

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:42:16 +0000

‘A cinematographic journey through the photographic atmospheres of Bill Brandt’ by renowned experimental filmmaker Steve Dwoskin. Many of the photographer's most famous images are presented, along with Brandt himself, who died in December 1983. Much of the film is a succession of glistening, high contrast monochrome frames, echoing Brandt’s style and blurring the boundary between the photographs and the film’s photography.

02-10-2007 Richard Hamilton

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:39:44 +0000

Made in collaboration with the artist Richard Hamilton, this documentary remains vivid and surprising nearly forty years on. Fragments of Hamilton’s works are integrated with newsreel images, movie trailers and much else. The artist offers an audio-only commentary, but this too is layered and disrupted. From this disorienting and often funny patchwork emerges a perceptual analysis that avoids conventional explanation, yet reveals key ideas that shaped Hamilton's art.

08-09-2007 Softspace - Part 2

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:31:41 +0000

The physically permanent identity of architecture has helped to define society for centuries. Now some practitioners have disengaged from tectonics as we traditionally understand it and are taking their discipline into the realms of ‘softspace’, a more fluid, ephemeral form of digitally-enabled design based on personalised experiences and responses

08-09-2007 Softspace - Part 1

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:31:00 +0000

15-09-2007 Transnational Correspondence Day 2 - Part 4

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:27:36 +0000

Establishing a sustainable, dynamic field of knowledge regarding contemporary art from beyond Western Europe and the USA remains a persistent challenge. In response, Transnational Correspondence brings a group of Brazilian artists, writers and curators into dialogue with their UK contemporaries.

15-09-2007 Transnational Correspondence Day 2 - Part 3

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:26:38 +0000

15-09-2007 Transnational Correspondence Day 2 - Part 2

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:25:51 +0000

15-09-2007 Transnational Correspondence Day 2 - Part 1

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:24:48 +0000

14-09-2007 Transnational Correspondence Day 1 - Part 1

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:23:45 +0000

14-09-2007 Transnational Correspondence Day 1 - Part 2

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:22:44 +0000

29-09-2007 Martha Rosler

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:18:53 +0000

Martha Rosler is one of the most influential artists of her generation whose work frequently compels the viewer to rethink the boundaries between the public and the private, the social and political. Her work centres on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience, and encompasses works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, as well as writing about art and culture.

05-10-2007 Sculpture Day Part 1

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:10:17 +0000

This forum explores the global contexts of contemporary sculpture, with artists originally from Cuba, China, India, Japan and Nigeria giving presentations about their work. This will be a unique opportunity to hear why sculpture remains a relevant language at a time when 2D media proliferate, and how its international currency is shaped through origin, migration and local circumstance.

05-10-2007 Sculpture Day Part 2

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:10:17 +0000

27-10-2007 Louise Bourgeois Conference - Part 2

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:01:05 +0000

On the occasion of the Louise Bourgeois exhibition this conference brings together a fascinating range of perspectives on the extraordinary work of this artist who has worked in dialogue with most of the major artistic movements of the twentieth century, but has always followed her own path, powerfully inventive and at the forefront of contemporary practice.

27-10-2007 Louise Bourgeois Conference - Part 1

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:00:00 +0000

20-10-2007 Sublime Conference Day 2 Part 2

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:00:17 +0000

This symposium asks why the Sublime now? What is its legacy today? In what ways has the Sublime acquired an added urgency in our new millennium? And to what extent is this concept a useful or dangerous tool for the understanding of contemporary culture and history?

20-10-2007 Sublime Conference Day 2 Part 1

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:58:55 +0000

19-10-2007 Sublime Conference Day 1

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:55:52 +0000

26-10-2007 Millais - Colin Cruise

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:52:27 +0000

Despite entering the Royal Academy as its youngest ever student and ending his career as its president, John Everett Millais’s attitude to the ‘establishment’ of British art was at times considered rebellious. Art historian Colin Cruise considers Millais’s work and its critical reception in relation to this complicated history.

28-09-2007 Millais - Jason Rosenfeld

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:49:48 +0000

Jason Rosenfeld, Associate Professor at Marymount Manhattan College, New York and co-curator of Millais, reveals the curatorial thinking behind the exhibition as he explores John Everett Millais’s career, from his early academic paintings to his magnificent late landscapes.

05-10-2007 Millais - Alan Morrison

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:46:10 +0000

Alan Morrison, Principal Lecturer at the Department of English, University of Westminster, examines the illustrations John Everett Millais made for a volume of Alfred Tennyson’s poems and his use of other literary subject matter, and relates these to the representation of gender in Millais’s work.

04-10-2007 Malcolm Morley

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:42:27 +0000

Malcolm Morley is admired for his refusal to settle into a style or a way of making art that is predictable. “I wouldn’t want anything I did to look like anything else and I wouldn’t want anything else I’ve done to look like much of what I’m doing now.”

03-10-2007 Wolfgang Tillmans

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:38:22 +0000

Since the mid 1980s, Wolfgang Tillmans has reinterpreted representational genres from portraiture to still life to landscape through the medium of photography.

02-06-2007 Helio Oiticica: The Body of Colour Symposium Session 3

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:26:57 +0100

This symposium has been organised in anticipation of the forthcoming exhibition Helio Oiticica: The Body of Colour. It will explore the findings of new research into Oiticica’s artistic practice and the issues raised by this major exhibition.The sessions will also examine Oiticica’s life and his legacy, in particular with regards to his participatory practice which continues to influence contemporary art.

02-06-2007 Helio Oiticica: The Body of Colour Symposium Session 2

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:23:38 +0100

02-06-2007 Helio Oiticica: The Body of Colour Symposium Session 1

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:23:38 +0100

16-06-2007 Surrealism and Film: Study Day

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:11:48 +0100

On the occasion of Tate Modern’s major exhibition Dalí & Film, this study day explores the work of Salvador Dalí in relation to the wider links between surrealism and film

23-06-2007 Hans Haacke

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:24:43 +0100

Talking Art, a series of interviews with artists, is an exciting new collaboration between Tate Modern and Art Monthly. Hans Haacke's incisive, unflinchingly political works expose systems of power and influence and often court controversy.

13-07-2007 Disrupting Narratives

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:57:50 +0100

This international symposium brings together some of the world's leading media artists, theorists and researchers to explore real-time interaction in electronic media.

22-07-2007 Patrick Keiller

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:50:04 +0100

Patrick Keiller is one of Britain’s most distinctive voices in cinema. For this screening and lecture, Keiller will present material from Londres, Bombay (2006), his ambitious multi-screen video reconstruction of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus) in Mumbai.

28-03-2007 Hogarth Study Day Part 1

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:00:17 +0100

William Hogarth is recognised as the first great artistic chronicler of modern urban experience.

28-03-2007 Hogarth Study Day Part 2

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:58:53 +0100

William Hogarth is recognised as the first great artistic chronicler of modern urban experience.

02-03-2007 Mark Hallet on Hogarth

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:59:04 +0100

William Hogarth is recognised as the first great artistic chronicler of modern urban experience.

16-03-2007 Writing London

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:41:41 +0100

In conjunction with Hogarth, this creative writing workshop explores the urban environment as a source of artistic inspiration and production.

24-02-2007 Alan Morrison on Hogarth

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:31:06 +0100

William Hogarth is recognised as the first great artistic chronicler of modern urban experience. Alan Morrison, lecturer at the University of Westminster, explores Hogarth’s sharp-witted and often satirical observations of life in eighteenth-century London.

28-06-2007 The Genius of Turner

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:22:33 +0100

JMW Turner was Britain’s greatest and most prolific painters, producing over 32,000 works, the majority of which are held at Tate Britain.

21-09-2007 Aubrey Williams Part 2

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:42:21 +0100

Artist Aubrey Williams was a key figure in the establishment of black visual culture in Britain and one of the founders of the Caribbean Arts Movement in the 1960s

21-09-2007 Aubrey Williams Part 1

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:41:18 +0100

Artist Aubrey Williams was a key figure in the establishment of black visual culture in Britain and one of the founders of the Caribbean Arts Movement in the 1960s

12-05-2007 Ian Breakwell Part 2

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:33:27 +0100

Artist Ian Breakwell (1943–2005) employed most forms of visual media during his 40-year career. This study day, chaired by Paul Bonaventura, brings together some of the commentators and collaborators who worked with Breakwell to discuss his legacy.

12-05-2007 Ian Breakwell Part 1

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:27:50 +0100

16-05-2007 Jarvis Cocker

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:54:25 +0100

Artist and performer Harland Miller joins his old friend Jarvis Cocker to discuss their shared passion for music, iconic British culture and how the popular and the everyday can be a point of departure for creative exploration.

09-05-2007 Frank Bowling

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:44:16 +0100

Frank Bowling was born in Guyana in 1936 and he studied at the Royal College of Art with David Hockney and Derek Boshier. He has exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, shown in the 2003 Venice Biennale and his work is held in many international collections. He joins critic and author Mel Gooding in conversation.

07-04-2007 Art, Lifestyle & Globalistation: Part 4

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:47:43 +0100

A series of guests will present their ideas on technology, activism and culture. Artist John Jordan reflects on the role of artist as activist, Tim Kindberg (Hewlett Packard) discusses his research into active bar codes while Jemima Rellie (Head of Digital Programmes, Tate) reflects on how we curate culture through networks. The event is chaired by Anne Nigten (Director of V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam).

Case Study 4: Presentation by Bella Dicks

07-04-2007 Art, Lifestyle & Globalistation: Part 3

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:45:39 +0100

Case Study 3: Presentation by Tim Kindberg

07-04-2007 Art, Lifestyle & Globalistation: Part 2

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:43:16 +0100

Case Study 2: Presentation by Jemima Rellie

07-04-2007 Art, Lifestyle & Globalistation: Part 1

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:41:01 +0100

Case Study 1: Presentation by John Jordan

23-03-2007 The Legacy of the Independent Group Day 1: Session 3 Part 3 & Session 4

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:32:39 +0100

Between architecture and advertising, fine art and mass culture, film and technology, how can the theories and practices of the Independent Group contribute to our understanding of the collapsing disciplinary boundaries of contemporary visual culture? To what extent did the Independent Group anticipate the impact of the digital revolution on visual culture and the value of ephemerality? Mark Wigley delivers a keynote and is joined by international critics, historians and practitioners to discuss these issues.

Session Three: Film and Image
Eric de Chassey (University of Tours, France)
Questions: Chair Victoria Walsh

Session Four: The Legacy of the Independent Group
Charlie Gere (Reader in New Media Research at the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University): "A Dream of Technical Control"
Sylvia Harrison (Senior Lecturer of Art History, La Trobe University): "Pop art to post-modernism: the legacy of Lawrence Alloway's 'fine art - pop art continuum'"
Questions and closing discussion. Chair: Barry Curtis

23-03-2007 The Legacy of the Independent Group Day 1: Session 3 Part 2

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:28:08 +0100

Session Three: Film and Image
Laurent Stalder (Assistant Professor, GTA Institute for History and Theory of Architecture, Zurich): Architecture as "Image"