Saturday 3 November 2007, 12.00–18.00

Sweeney Tate is a performance for The World as a Stage exhibition by the Los Angeles-based artist Mario Ybarra Jr, who works out of in the city’s New China Town Barber Shop, a community art space. Ybarra stages a recreation of the barbershop at Tate Modern, and has invited barbers from across London to participate in a hair-cutting competition.

Programme of the event

12.00 Mario Ybarra’s haircut by Victor Garcia

13.00 Video screening, introduction and hip-hop talk by Faisal Abdullah and Mario Ybarra

14.00 CHOP:SHOP, international barber’s competition

Barbers/hairdressers in competition: Victor Garcia from Los Angeles, hairdressers from Cuts, Soho, and Pepi's, Camden Town.

17.00 BS conversation and award ceremony

Tate Modern  In the exhibition
Free with exhibition ticket, no bookings taken
Limited capacity
For all ages

  

This event is related to the The World as a Stage exhibition