Friday 4 September 2009

18.00-22.00

Curated by the mysterious and secretive group The Diogenes Club, 'Late at Tate Britain' in September is a mix of high and low brow, mainstream and counter culture. Film, music and readings are presented throughout the galleries, exlporing new trends and artisitc platforms that are emerging out of the strange and arcane world that we call now.

Pil and Galia Kollectiv present Critical Mass

19.10 & 20.30
Auditorium (free tickets available from the Information Desk during the evening, first come, first served)

London based artists Pil and Galia Kollectiv curate an evening of radical worship for the apocalypse, featuring a sermon for the Church of the Atom with live music by Gelbart, a black mass by vampiric metal band Whitby Bay and fundamentalist film clips.

The Diogenes Club present Tate Britain Mixtapes

Painters Michael Raedecker and Dexter Dalwood, along with other Diogenes Club members, will present mixtape compilations selected in response to works of art in the rooms listed above. 

Room 13 - Dexter Dawood

Room 21- Michael Raedecker

Room 19 - The Diogenes Club

Room 15 - Michael Raedecker

Room 4- The Diogenes Club

Room 9 -   Random play, mix by all the above

Reza Aramesh presents Action 71

Room 7

Room 3

Millbank Entrance

For the last two years, artist Reza Aramesh has been photographing homeless people sleeping on the streets of London. For Late at Tate, these photographs will be restaged live in the galleries.The interventions are responses to the contemporary context in which they exist, but also the socio-economic historic themes in the rooms which the artist has chosen.

The Drawing Salon

18.30 - 21.30

North Duveen Galleries

The Drawing Salon, founded by theatre maker Georgia Jacob and illustrator Steph von Reiswitz, is a drawing ensemble that focuses on narrative rather than nudity. For Late at Tate they present a private members’ club frequented by artists, cynics, freemasons, private detectives, and occultists among others and dress-up, draw or both.

The Elephant Man

20.15 - 22.30

Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art and Design

In collaboration with the Department of Health and to raise awareness of the Big Care Debate on the reform of adult care and support in England, Late at Tate presents the cinematic classic The Elephant Man (dir. David Lynch 1980) - a story of the brutal treatment of Joseph Merrick and his subsequent life at London Hospital.

Join the Big Care Debate

Chelsea Masters Show 2009

The annual MA Summer Show celebrates the work from graduating students from MA Fine Art, MA Textile Design, MA Graphic Design Communication, MA Interior and Spatial Design and MA Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice.

Thursday 3 September - 10:00 - 20.00 

Friday 4 September - 10:00 - 20.00 

Saturday 5 September - 10:00 - 16.00

Sunday 6 September - 10:00 - 16.00

Raqs Media

Artist Talk: Raqs Media Collective

Duffield Room, Tate Britain 18.20 - 18.50 (ticketed)
(free tickets available from the Information Desk during the evening, first come, first served)

Monica Narula, from Raqs Media Collective, will give a short conceptual-lecture in conjunction with the opening of their new commission, The Surface of Each Day is a Different Planet. The new work will be on view in the Lightbox Gallery from 4 September - 27 December. Raqs Media Collective was formed in 1992 by independent media practitioners Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. Their work spans installation, new media, filmmaking, photography, media theory, research and writing.