First Friday of each month, 18.00–22.00

Friday 3 August 2007, 18.00–22.00

In collaboration with CHELSEA space and the Chelsea College of Art and Design, the August Late at Tate Britain takes the exhibition How We Are: Photographing Britain, and Summer Holidays as its central themes, to present an event packed with art and entertainment for a balmy summer evening.

Join us on the front lawn for a perfect summer barbeque, a gallery in a caravan, art bunting, and photographic fun. In the galleries, hear the Trojan Sound System, a live photographic portrait project by Faisal Abdu'Allah, see performances by Bruce McLean and Frank Sidebottom, and a talk by human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.

PLEASE NOTE: TERRY DE HAVILLAND HAS CANCELLED

General Information

Main Pay bar in North Duveens on Level 2
BBQ and Pay bar on the Front Lawn (weather permitting)

Refreshments available in the Café on Level 1
18.00–21.30

Restaurant Tasting menu for 19.30 sitting
£60 per head

Main Shop on Level 2 open until 21.40

Members Room open to all Members until 21.30

Collection displays open 18.00–21.40

How We Are: Photographing Britain open from 18.00-21.40
Half-price tickets available from the Manton ticket desk

Front Lawn

Making Photographs

18.00-21.30

Front Lawn

Artists Emma Hart, Corinna Till, Michael Wedgwood, Dai Jenkins and Bryan Parsons will be making interactive photographs on the front lawn. Using artist designed bunting, Polaroid Cameras and subtle sound effects these artists will create a summer fete at Tate Britain.

 

18.00-21.30  
The Caravan Gallery: Photographing the way we live today, Leisure, Landscape and Lifestyle in 21st-Century Britain.
The Caravan Gallery is a mobile exhibition venue and visual arts project run by artists Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale who are on a mission to record the ordinary and extraordinary details of life in 21st century Britain. Eager to examine clichés and cultural trends, they are particularly drawn to absurd anomalies and curious juxtapositions, typical of places in transition and in the process of reinventing themselves as regeneration fever sweeps the land.

http://www.thecaravangallery.co.uk

18.00-21.30
Chelsea Cab: Parked on the street in front of Tate Britain licensed cabbie and art collector, Jason Brown’s, London taxi formerly known as Cab Gallery featuring work by Stephen Farthing RA.

Manton Foyer

Choosing images from the exhibition How We Are: Photographing Britain as a starting point, Peter Tatchell and Frank Sidebottom will be giving talks.

20.00-20.15
Human rights activist Peter Tatchell has been a political force against oppression worldwide. From gay rights to oppressive regimes, Tatchell has bravely protested even in the face of violent opposition, notably being knocked unconscious by President Mugabe's bodyguards and recently beaten and arrested as an international observer of a gay rights march in Moscow. 

20.45-21.30
Timperley's papier-mâché icon, Frank Sidebottom, is currently celebrating twenty-two years in showbiz with an exhibition of animations, drawings, films and props at CHELSEA space (opposite Tate Britain). In his inimitable style Frank will be giving his very own Late at Tate lecture on photography.

How Are You?

18.00-20.00  

Manton Foyer and South Duveens

Marthe Fjellestad, Doro Globus, Veronica Kavass, Sarah Purchase, Sonja Lau, and Masha Prashkovsky from the 'MA Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice' at Chelsea College of Art and Design organise a series of artistic interventions in response to the photographic exhibition 'How We Are: Photographing Britain'.

18.00-21.30 Headshot

Step right up and have your picture taken! Become one of the photographs from How We Are!  

19.00-20.00 film screening Samantha Singing (single channel video projection, 2006) by artist Claire Wheeldon

Manton Foyer

18.00-21.30 My Voice Shall Now Come From The Other Side Of The Room, 2007, performance by Lundahl&Seitl

South Duveens

18.00-20.15  

Manton Lightbox

18.00-21.30  
How We May Be
Curators Andy Best, Zoe Darlig and Nick Hornby from the Postgraduate programme at Chelsea College of Art and Design have invited selected artists to respond to specific images from the exhibition. Without directly sampling the works, artists have been asked to respond to their chosen image. This project, entitled How We May Be aims to reveal new aspects of the work in the exhibition, whist potentially suggesting new directions for the photographic image as seen by artists working in London today.

North Duveens

18.00-21.30  
Live documentary photo work by Faisal Abdu'Allah
Throughout the evening photographs of visitors to Late at Tate taken by Abdu'Allah will be projected onto the wall at the north end of the Duveen galleries.

18.00-21.30  
Music from the Trojan Sound System with guest DJs including the legendary DJ Derek.http://trojanrecords.com/

Room 9

Bruce McLean

19.30, 20.30 (Duration 20 mins)

Maitre D: a minimal one part, carefully placed and balanced menu sculpture in two sittings.

A menu for mediocrity.

A new performance/play from artist Bruce McLean.  His multi disciplinary practice has included posing, painting, sculpture, film and architecture. McLean is currently featured in St Martin's Sculpture Department 1964-71 (Tate Britain Room 30) and Audio Arts (Room 38).

Tickets are strictly limited

56 seated places to participate in the performance

64 standing places in the audience.

Tickets available from the Rotunda Information desk from 18.00 on a first come first served basis with a limit of 2 per person. 

Top of Manton Stairs

Fold07 Performance
Kenshi Fukuyama, Ji Seock Han, Dae Hun Kwon, Sea Hyun Lee, Sue Jin Lee, Naoko Miyazaki, Yuko Nasu, Kaori Shiota, Kaman Yip

Late at Tate Britain presents a performance to mark the release of Fold07, an annual artists' multiple published by the Global Art Practice programme for post MA international artists at Chelsea College of Art & Design.  The performance takes the form of a production line collating works of art by the participants - as well as invited artists and writers from around the world - into a limited edition 'box' which is then sealed and given free of charge to nominated art institutions and individuals who are invited to collect their copy as it comes off the production line. This is a valuable opportunity for the public to see the individual works prior to their release into the world. A small number of copies of this exclusive limited edition will also be made available for sale.

Fold07's guest artists are: Jonathan Bryan, Claire Colebrook, Stephen Farthing, Clare Gasson, David Gothard, Hee Woo Jeong, Tina Keane, Nancy Lang, Carlos Lobo, Gwen Ramsay, Eva Rudlinger, Mariko Takahashi and Gary Woodley

CHELSEA space and throughout Tate Britain

18.00-21.30  
To celebrate his exhibition CHELSEA space is Ace at CHELSEA space (opposite Tate Britain), Timperley's papier-mâché icon Frank Sidebottom will be on hand to offer his expert advice on the world of art.  He will also be giving a lecture on the art of photography in the Manton Foyer at 20.45

18.00-21.30  
Yason Banal's Blackhole Camera will be disguising photographs with words, diagrams and objects - and vision with the void. Black pages from an unfinished manuscript will be strategically placed throughout Tate Britain, in effect transforming the museum into a living book - the audience simultaneously becoming viewers of art, readers of literature and participants in a performance. One copy of the completed book will be for sale at the museum shop.