Friday 6 June 2008, 20.00

With music from Queens of Noize, talks in the displays from John Steazaker, Brian Dillon, Colin Cruise, Jo Melvin, Michael Archer, Faisal Abdu'Allah, Toby Treves and Curator Chris Stephens, and a film screening selected by Artprojx

General Information

Main pay bar in the Manton Foyer on Level 1 18.00-21.30

Pay bar in Room 9 on Level 2 18.00-21.30

Refreshments available in the café on Level 1 18.00-21.30

Restaurant Tasting Menu for 19.30 sitting £60 per head

Main Shop Level 2 open until 21.40

Members Room open to all members until 21.30

Collection displays open 18.00-21.40

Queens of Noize

Room 9
18.30-21.30

Hear these legendary champions of the 'never mind the gap' school of djing play an art-inspired set in the midst of British Romantic paintings. Mairead and Tabitha have been working together since 2002, creating unpredictable music experiences and can be heard around London and hosting Sonic Safari on BBC 6 Music.

Artprojx Presents… Still Film

Auditorium
19.00-20.10
19.30-21.40

69 minutes

A selection of artist's films with a sculptural sensibility: these films all share a fixed camera-gaze, an inherent quality, an apparent simplicity and leave a lingering effect. Including films by Matt Calderwood, Louise Camrass, Andrew Cross, Ryan Gander, William Hunt, Michael Nyman, Aura Satz and Richard Wilson, compilation selected by David Gryn, Artprojx.  

The programme details and order:

Matt Calderwood - Light
Louise Camrass - Class
Matt Calderwood - Tape
Andrew Cross - Knebworth
Matt Calderwood - Gloss
Ryan Gander - Writing My Life

Matt Calderwood - Strips (vertical)
William Hunt - Put your foot down
Matt Calderwood - Lightbulb (screw)
Michael Nyman - Love Train
Matt Calderwood - Cuff
Aura Satz - Automamusic
Matt Calderwood - Matches
Richard Wilson - Turning the place over
Matt Calderwood - Screen

Programme selected by David Gryn | Artprojx
Compiled at MPC

Tickets available from the Clore Information Desk from 18.00, on a first come, first served basis

Colin Cruise: In Pursuit of Avalon

Room 10
19.00

Colin Cruise has published widely on nineteenth-century art. He curated the exhibition 'Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites' for Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and is currently working on an exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite drawings. He 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).

Free talk. Space may be limited if overcrowding occurs

Toby Treves on Paolozzi's Cyclops

Room 21
19.00

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.

Free talk. Space may be limited if overcrowding occurs

Michael Archer on Love me Tender

Room 28
19.30

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.

Free talk. Space may be limited if overcrowding occurs

Jo Melvin on Studio International

Corridor 61
19.30

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.

Free talk. Space may be limited if overcrowding occurs

 Faisal Abdu'Allah on his work

Room 18
20.00

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.

Free talk. Space may be limited if overcrowding occurs

Brian Dillon on Tacita Dean

Room T4
20.00

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.

Free talk. Space may be limited if overcrowding occurs

John Stezaker on his work

Room 27
20.30

John Stezaker is fascinated by the power of images and questions the authority of pictures found in books, magazines, postcards and encyclopaedias by directly intervening into their ordinary status. Through the handcrafted act of splicing together, inverting, or simply adjusting an image Stezaker embarks upon 'a process that cuts it off from its disappearance into the everyday world'. He will be discussing his influences - from Surrealism to Hollywood - and the processes that inform his work in this talk.

Free talk. Space may be limited if overcrowding occurs

Chris Stephens on Victor Passmore

Room 22.
20.30

2008 is the centenary of Passmore's birth and this new display of his work brings together the different phases of his career. 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.

Free talk. Space may be limited if overcrowding occurs

Art Now: Juneau Projects: Trappenkamp

Sculpture Court

juneau/projects/ are artists Phil Duckworth and Ben Sadler, who have worked together on art and music projects since 1999 and have created Trappenkamp, a new installation for Art Now on the Sculpture Court. Based in Birmingham, juneau/projects/ make records, perform live and create art. This latest work mixes traditional crafts and customs with new technologies, from digitally generated wood carvings to woodland themes computer games, they synthesise old and new, city and countryside into their own expression of folk art for the modern age.

Please note: an invitation only event will be taking place in the Clore Gardens near the Sculpture Court.

Tate Britain  Auditorium
Free, booking recommended
Tickets available from the Clore Information Desk from 18.00, on a first come, first served basis