INTRODUCTION

For the duration of UBS Openings: The Long Weekend, a giant board game covered the bridge in the middle of the Turbine Hall. It measured 300 square metres and was created by set designer Delia Peel.

Adults and children were invited to play the game together, navigating their way across a giant platform, undertaking fun and creative challenges relating to the Collection displays. Teams were named after a well-known artists in the Collection and players wore bespoke hats identifying them, for example; as the Magritte team who have bowler hats, the Hesse team – who have string Medusa hats and the Warhol team – who have white wigs. Players encounter human statues, giant metronomes and an array of objects and characters that appear to have walked straight out of Tate’s Collection.

The game tests creative ingenuity, problem solving and teamwork, and opens up new ways of looking at, thinking about and enjoying modern art.

  Music & Performance