Friday 6 February 2009

18.45-22.00

Cape Farewell pioneers a cultural response to climate change, encouraging and enabling artists to respond to this by exposing them to the Arctic environment.  As part of 'Late at Tate', Cape Farewell with the Sublime Objects Research project present an evening of events debating and engaging with culture and climate change.

Auditorium

18.45-19.45      The Future Sublime

Choreographer Siobhan Davies, novelist Ian McEwan, artist and director of Cape Farewell David Buckland, and Dr Philip Shaw, senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leicester discuss their experiences of the cold north and their artistic and philosophical responses to the Sublime, place and climate change.

Tickets will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis from the Clore Information Desk from 18.00

Auditorium

20.30-21.30      Art from a Changing Arctic

First shown on the BBC in 2005, Art from a Changing Arctic, Cape Farewell's first film, directed by David Hinton, features footage from the first three Cape Farewell expeditions to Svalbard, documenting the thoughts and activities of the artists involved.

Tickets will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis from the Clore Information Desk from 18.00

T7

20.00-20.30      Ian McEwan: New words on Climate

Ian McEwan reads excerpts from his new and unpublished novel. McEwan joined the Cape Farewell expedition to Svalbard in 2005 and speaks of the influence this experience had on the creation of his new novel.

Tickets will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis from the Clore Information Desk from 18.00

Duffield Room

20.30-21.30      Art and Climate Change

Artoonist Michèle Noach, writer Ruth Little, Architect and President of RIBA Sunand Prasad in conversation about their own artistic practice and the many and various ways artists around the world are approaching environmental sustainability.

Tickets will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis from the Clore Information Desk from 18.00

Room 9

19.00-19.30      Max Eastley

Sound artist Max Eastley became known as 'The Ears of Cape Farewell' during the time he spent capturing sounds in the Arctic wilderness. Eastley speaks of this experience, playing a selection of the sounds he returned with and performing live alongside his critically acclaimed composition Arctic.

19.45-20.15      Shlomo

Beatboxer Shlomo, joined the Cape Farewell expedition to West Coast Greenland in 2008. Shlomo talks about his initial feelings towards climate change while introducing his audience to his particular brand of making music, sound which comes 'all from the mouth'.

Millbank Entrance

Howling Dogs Vicky Long

This sound recording of Greenlandic Hunting Dogs, tethered in the deep snow above the town of Illulisat, was made during the 2008 expedition to the West Coast of Greenland.

Look out for plasma screens featuring footage recorded in the High Arctic during the Cape Farewell expeditions between 2003 and 2008.

Chelsea Parade Ground

Greenhouse Gas by Sunand Prasad with Chris Wainwright features four tethered helium balloons which between them delineate 540 cubic metres representing one tonne of CO2 - the average monthly per head emission in the UK.

ALTERMODERN: TATE TRIENNIAL 2009

Lightbox

18.15-19.00      Duke Garwood (music performance)

Duke Garwood and the Ladywoodsman, are Alex Tucker, Paul May, John Richards and Dominic. They will be recreating some of the soundtrack pieces for Feature

19.10-21.35      El Topo (1971), Alejandro Jodorowsky (125 mins, 18)

Jodorowsky appears a leather-clad gunfighter and a Servant of Man to a group of freaks in this surreal Western, which also have heavy religious framings.

Limited capacity, no seating available

Art Now: Hurvin Anderson

Painter Hurvin Anderson (b.1965) engages with the traditions of landscape painting and the history of abstraction. His pictorial world has been shaped by his background. Born in Birmingham of Jamaican parents, Anderson's paintings draw on the influence of both regions.