Friday 2 November 2007

Friday 2 November 2007
18.00-22.00

Hit the jackpot at Late at Tate Britain and explore the trials and tribulations of winning. Voice your thoughts on the Turner Prize and join artists and comedians in this night of prize giving.

Superflex: Free Beer Games
Millbank Foyer
18.30-19.15
20.15-21.00

Renowned Danish artist collective SUPERFLEX develop the means to create new ways of producing, thinking, acting, speaking and imagining. FREE BEER applies open-source methods, to a traditional, globally available product – beer. Late at Tate Britain presents FREE BEER and Counter-Game Strategies in association with ProjectBase.

Everyone is a winner, a free beer to the first 70 participants. Tickets available from the Rotunda information desk for a specified time, and on a first come first served basis.

Team Mega Mix
Gallery 9
18.00-22.00

The two Teds are conceptual disc jockeys, their principle concept being 'fun', their last concept was 'yacht rock', their next concept will be 'cheese and wine hits'.

Look out for their striking uniforms, and uniform good looks. They will be playing 3 sets, soundtracking 25 years of the Turner Prize.

The Staff Turner Prize
Gallery 9
19.30-20.30 – Presentations & Voting
21.15-21.30 – Award Ceremony

Tonight, four of Britian’s outstanding comedians take the stage to defend four emerging artists who work at Tate. With only one winner you will need to listen, consider and vote. Tonight, the winner of the Turner Prize will be your choice!!

Host, Amy Lamé, is a writer, tv and radio presenter, performer, nightclub hostess and all round chubby glamour puss.

Advocates:

Simon Munnery was the creator of Alan Parker - Urban Warrior and founder of The League Against Tedium. His BBC series, "Attention Scum" was nominated for a Golden Rose of Montreux. Simon has chosen Lloyd Durling who works at Tate Britain as an art handling technician. Lloyd's drawings of flowers and mushrooms are intricately produced with a biro.

Tom Bell is a former vice president of Cambridge Footlights who is now a regular presenter of shows on Resonance FM. His recent Edinburgh show received a rave review in The Scotsman. Tom has picked a duo artist team, Roberta & Wen. Roberta Segura, who works in the Tate Bookshop and Wen Wu, who is a gallery guide are both portrait painters who are planning to collaborate and exhibit together.

Josie Long recently won the Best Newcomer award at the Edinburgh Fringe for her show, "Trying is good" previously she has also won the BBC's new comedy award. Staff number 1499 (Adrian Shaw), who Josie will support, works in Tate information and has been selected because of the "Sick Happy Idle" publication he makes with his brothers.

Robin Ince is a comedy writer, presenter, impressionist and stand-up. In 2006 his Book Club project won the Time Out Award for outstanding achievement in comedy. Robin has picked Barry Thompson who works in the Tate Bookshop. Barry's drawings and paintings represent a moment in time, ideas and beliefs from childhood and adolescence.

Produced by Harry Pye, films by Gordon Beswick. Space available on a first come, first served basis, doors will close at 19.30

Taste Turner: A Tutored Wine Tasting
Gallery T5: Turner Collection
18.30-19.15

Renowned Sommelier and Tate wine buyer Hamish Anderson is joined by artist and curator Anya Gallaccio and comedian Amy Lamé to lead a tutored wine tasting whereby all views will be considered.  There will be wine, winners and much discussion.

Tickets to be released from the Rotunda information desk at 18.00, limited number, first come first served

Select: Mark Titchner
20.00- 21.30
Auditorium

Select invites British-based artists to choose a programme of performance, film and video works that reflect their interests and influences. Tonight is curated by Turner-prize nominated artist, Mark Titchner. Using artists' films and diverse fragments of found films Mark Titchner's night explores the psychology of excess, control and altered states.

Programme includes:

Jennifer West - Led Zeppelin Alchemy Film (2007, 3:36mins, DVD) 

John Latham - Talk Mr Bard (1968 6mins, 16mm)

Sharon Hayes - Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) screeds 13 (2003, 10 mins, BetaSP)

John Latham - Britannica (1971, 7mins, 16mm)

Jennifer West - Naked Deep Creek Hot Springs Film (2007 2:33, DVD)

Paul Sharits - Razorblades (double screen) (1968, 25mins, 16mm)

The programme will be interspersed with a visual mixtape of footage ranging from government information tapes to food ads from drive in cinema specially selected by Mark Titchner. 

Select is in collaboration with Lux

Tickets to be released from the Clore Information desk at 18.00, limited number, first come first served

The Difference Between Human and Walls
18.00-22.00
Throughout the gallery

A group of uniformed employees of the gallery are asked to stand, blocking different passages in the space. When a visitor asks to pass, they disperse and regroup somewhere else.

The Division
18.00-22.00
Throughout the gallery

The artists have announced that they will invite 50 beautiful people to join the visitors at the event.

Nina Jan Bier and Marie Jan Lund create two new works for Late at Tate Britain. The two artists have been collaborating since 2002 and continue to initiate situations that focus on tensions in different social contexts

Take on Turner
Gallery 61
20.00

Alice Rawsthorne

Alice Rawsthorne, a judge from 1999, has subsequently led the world of contemporary British design as critic, curator and journalist. Tonight she recalls her memory of being part of the Turner prize.

Art Now: Seb Patane

Seb Patane creates pared-down tableaux made up of drawings, adapted found imagery and objects, as well as sound and live performance often arranged around sculptural constructions. Resurrecting material that contains a particular potency for him, Patane is drawn to ideas of tribalism, urban mythology and altered states. Patane is making a new installation for the Art Now opening tonight.