Monday 22 June 2009, 19.00–20.30

Elmgreen and Dragset's close and playful relationship with architecture is underscored by the site-specific environments they often create for exhibitions, particularly their Powerless Structures series of installations.

Their work has seen the white cube buried, elevated, and even transformed into a ghostly subway station in a practice that has repeatedly challenged and transgressed the institutional exhibition space, by rendering that space itself as a work of art. For their contribution to the 2009 Venice Biennale, the artists will curate both the Nordic and Danish Pavilions, transforming them into domestic spaces with fictional inhabitants. 

They will be joined in conversation by Jamie Fobert, an architect whose experience in gallery design, from the Melnikov bus depot through to Tate St Ives' extension, will ensure an evening of lively debate on designing and inhabiting spaces for art.

Chaired by Alice Rawsthorn, Design Critic, International Herald Tribune.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£9 (£7 concessions), booking required

    

Webcast interview with Elmgreen & Dragset and Jamie Fobert >