UBS Openings: Saturday Live
Word Sculpture

Saturday 25 November 2006
Wilhelm Sasnal, Anarchy, 2001
Wilhelm Sasnal
Anarchy 2001
© The artist courtesy Sadie Coles HQ

UBS Openings: Saturday Live presents a ground-breaking programme of live works at Tate Modern every two months.

The power and beauty of the spoken and written word is the focus for this programme of performances and film.

Three major live works are presented, beginning with the feminist conceptual artist Ewa Partum’s Visual Poetry, the recreation of a piece in which cut-up letters are scattered into the air. Carl Andre makes a rare appearance to read his own poetry, in which words are arranged on the page in a manner equivalent to his use of sculptural materials. Martin Creed presents a fascinating new work, Words, that combines speech, choreography and music and is described by Creed as being ‘a talk about trying to talk’.

The Image/Text film programme comprises short films by Polish artists investigating words as pictures. The artists include Paulina Olowska, Józef Robakowski and Wilhelm Sasnal.

Image/Text Starr Auditorium 15.00–16.00
Ewa Partum:
Visual Poetry		 Throughout Tate Modern 16.30–19.15
Carl Andre:
Poetry Reading		 Starr Auditorium 19.00–20.30
Martin Creed:
Words		 Starr Auditorium 21.00–22.30

Opening up art. Tate Modern Collection with UBS

UBS Openings is an exciting programme of events and activities which form part of the partnership between Tate Modern and UBS, a global financial services firm, over three years.

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