Exploring some of the themes raised by the idea of Altermodern in music, contemporary art and society, this Late at Tate takes the concept of remixing to the gallery with DJing from CDR, free-style poetry from Platform 21, and discussions on docu-fiction with Defina Foundation.

CDR Late at Tate Special Session
18.30-21.30
Room 9

'Works in Progress' 3 hour DJ set from CDR, a night of ideas and tracks in the making, with DJs Tony Nwachukwu (NEPA Recordings, Attica Blues) and Gavin Alexander (Call 'n' Response) spinning an exclusive set of music from the extensive CDR music archive sourced from music heard and developed at their renowned CDR sessions from their ever-growing global community of music-makers. Featuring special guest live sets from CDR collaborators Soundspecies 19.15-20.00, and Dorian Concept 20.15-21.00.

Framing Reality
19.00-20.00
Auditorium

This panel discussion seeks to explore global perspectives on artists’ increasing involvement with the documentary form. Prof Mark Nash (Royal College of Art) and artists Lamia Joreige (Lebanon) and Oraib Toukan (Jordan) discuss notions of artistic agency as one in which the artist crosses back and forth between the domains of reality and fiction in a global context.

Framing Reality Screening
20.10-21.10
Auditorium

Oraib Toukan, I found myself on Google Earth, Single Channel Video, Mini DV; 17’, 2008

Maps are always about the possibility of being somewhere, what about the possibility of being nowhere?  I found myself on Google Earth is a non-linear video essay on temporal travel. It forces multiple parallels between the act of gazing at a map, with a photograph, translating concepts of digital degradation with neurological escapism. The work looks to disorient the viewer in the dialectics of near and far, of the micro and macro. It questions existence overall, by pointing a finger at the map as another image-making attempt to represent existence, but complicating it thereafter.

Lamia Joreige, A journey, DV cam, 41’, 2006

A journey follows the artist’s grandmother Tati Rose, as her personal story meets the collective History of the Middle East. Born in Jerusalem in 1910, Tati Rose moved to Beirut in 1930 to get married. Her family, among whom was Aunt Marie, her sister, was forced into exile and left Yaffa in 1948 to take refuge in Lebanon. Alternating documents, Super 8mm films, photographs, interviews, landscapes and voice over, the film triggers a reflection on history and on the conflicts in the region, as well as a reflection on time, disappearance and loss.

In collaboration with The Delfina Foundation
Tickets available on a first-come, first served basis from the Clore information desk from 18.00

Platform 21
Room 8, Room 14, Room 22 and Octagon

Hear artworks from the Tate collection and the Triennial exhibition 'remixed' by spoken word performances and interventions from the Platform 21 collective of performance poets. Watch out for these spontaneous interpretations throughout the night by creative wordsmiths Beyonder, FLOetic Lara and Leon Williams.

Caspar Melville on Remix Culture
19.00-20.00
Duffield Room

Dr Caspar Melville is editor of New Humanist Magazine and an expert on dance music cultures. Using slides and musical samples, Dr Melville will talk about the history and cultural politics of the idea of 'the remix' in music and art, tracing its links with early modernist aesthetics and its relationship to the 'altermodern'.

Tickets available on a first-come, first served basis from the Clore information desk from 18.00

Cosmic Truths
20.00-20.30
Manton Lawn

Please meet at 19.30 in the Rotunda

Treating the cosmos as her playground, Katie Paterson's work spans vast distances, making connections between disparate points and timescales. For Paterson the universe is at once a graspable entity and an elastic proposition in a state of continual flux. As part of her project for Altermodern, Paterson has invited Professor Ofer Lahav, Head of Astrophysics, University College London to give an outdoor evening lecture on the night sky.

In case of wet weather this talk will take place at 20.30 in the Duffield Room. Tickets available on a first-come, first served basis from the Clore information desk from 18.00

Identity Remix
18.30-20.30
Manton Foyer
21.00-21.30
Duveen Studio

To Tate Britain you are an aficionado, actualiser, sensualist, researcher, self-improver, socialite, tourist, student, child, family. But who are you really? For one night only register your own identity within Tate with a toolkit of labels and personal portrait photo. All photo portraits to be displayed in the Duveen Studio from 21.00-21.30

Soweto Kinch: Ghost Remix
Room 17
20.30-21.00

Sampling from his own experience of creating the sonic trail: The Ghost in the Machine as part of the Visual Dialogues programme, musician and MC Soweto Kinch responds to Altermodern with a mix of jazz, rap and live visuals. Kinch evokes different approaches to modernity through a musical journey that spans the historic to contemporary, crossing genres and narratives. With Bassist Karl Rasheed-Abel and VJ Nat Jones (Soopanatural)

Shezad Dawood
Lightbox
17.45 - 21.35

Tonight starts with another chance to see Shezad Dawood's Feature 2008. Then we welcome cult psycho-country band Lonesome Cowboys from Hell to the stage to perform some 'post postmodern blues'. Rounding off the evening is Andy Warhol's controversial film Lonesome Cowboys featuring a transvestite sheriff and five gay cowboys.

17.45-18.40
Feature, Shezad Dawood (55 mins)

18.45-19.30
Lonesome Cowboys from Hell (music performance)

Cult psycho-country band Lonesome Cowboys from Hell are performing a special set filled with artistic indifference and heart-felt immorality.

Lonesome Cowboys from Hell are: Frank E. the Lonely Woodsman (Calum F. Kerr, Vocals), Blind 'Gentleman' Jk-ee (Tim Flitcroft, Vocals/All other instruments) & Jan 'Devil Bucket' Maat (Jan Suchanek, Bucket Bass).With special guests Roadeo Marco (Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly), Daisy May (Pawla Cottage) and more.

19.40-21.35
Lonesome Cowboys (1968), Andy Warhol (109 mins, 18)

Warhol's take on the Western includes a transvestite sheriff and five gay cowboys. This hilarious and camp film questions the conventional portrayal of these heroic pioneers.

Courtesy of the collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Limited capacity of 50, on a first-come, first-served basis. No seating available.

Lightbox shut 14.00-17.00

• Late at Tate Britain March 2009 : Framing Reality   Friday 6 March 2009   free