Late at Tate Britain
Nature to Advantage Dressed: English Garden Lounging
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Mary McCaughey
Photo: C.E Bourke |
Friday 7 December 18.00-22.00
To celebrate the Millais exhibition, Mary Mc Caughey presents Nature to Advantage Dressed: EnglishGarden Lounging, winter in London 2007 a DJ set/soundscape that evokes the beauty, colour, romance and elegance of the English garden. The night also includes a UK film premier of AES + F Group’s Last Riot and music from Future Loop Foundation. With avant-garde fashion designers Boudicca and tailors Gieves and Hawkes dressing artists involved in the event.
General Information
Main pay bar in the North Duveens on Level 2 18.00–21.30 Last drinks at 21.30
Bar in Manton Foyer 18.00–21.30Last drinks at 21.30
Refreshments available in the Café on Level 118.00–21.30
Restaurant Tasting Menu for 19.30 sitting £60 per head
Main Shop on Level 2 open until 21.40
Collection displays open 18.00–21.40
Half price tickets for exhibitions, Millais and Turner Prize: A Retrospective will be available from the Manton Ticket Desk.
Future Loop Foundation
Manton Foyer
18.00–21.30
Live set from 20.00–21.00
Live audio visual performance and DJ sets from Berlin-based Future Loop Foundation, whose highly anticipated new double album The Fading Room, Memories and Remixes, comes out on the niche music label Just Music in Spring 2008. Mark Barrott, aka FLF, will play sets based on this highly personal and organic album, that weaves speeches and vocal snippets from an archive of Barrot’s childhood family interviews into synth-centred ambient soundscapes: conjuring up a series of snapshots of a nostalgic English past with a contemporary Berlin edge. Special thanks to John Rixon.
http://www.futureloopfoundation.com/
Mary Mc Caughey English Garden Lounging DJ set featuring the Baby Grand Master
Gallery 9, Romantic Painting in Britain
18.00–21.30
Surrounded by the Romantic Painting of gallery 9, Mary Mc Caughey creates a DJ set that evokes the romance and beauty of the English garden. The set will feature the Baby Grand Master, a luxurious DJ console, created by American artist Gardner Post. Gardner Post and fellow US sound artist Brian Kane will attend the event. Special thanks to Tara Londi (assistant),Terri Parker (shipping) and Tim Barnes (graphics).
http://www.englishgardenlounging.com
AES + F Group Last Riot (2007)
27 mins (on a loop)
North Duveens
18.00–21.30
Last Riot is a new computer animated film by Russian art collective known as the AES + F Group. The film is set in a Caravaggio inspired virtual 3-D world and as narrative unfolds we witness a battle between androgynous teenagers. It was first shown at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007, as part of the Russian Pavilion to high critical acclaim. This is the first screening in the UK coutesey of Triumph Gallery (Moscow), with kind support from Russian ACT and City Inn Westminster.
http://www.aes-group.org/last_riot.asp
Craig Bourke
North Duveens
18.00–21.30
Projections of landscape photographs evoking the beauty of English gardens by Craig Bourke. Special thanks to James Chan (visual projection).
Linder Sterling in Conversation with
Lisa le Feuvre
Gallery 28, Love Me Tender
20.00–20.30
Linder Sterling’s design for The Buzzcock’s first single Orgasm Addict in 1977 has become a classic. ‘It was pretty top-shelf stuff back then,’ said Buzzcocks guitarist and singer Peter Shelley. The original collage has recently been acquired by Tate and is on display in this gallery. She talks about her work with curator and writer Lisa le Feuvre. Sponsored by Tate Etc magazine.
Free but space limited.
