Saturday 24 May 2008, 16.00–17.30

Part of UBS Openings: The Long Weekend 2008

Alison Knowles will perform her iconic work Make a Salad (1962), on a grand scale, choreographed in response to the architecture of the Turbine Hall. This Fluxus event score simply instructs ‘Make a Salad’, and on this occasion a giant salad will be created from lettuce, tomato, carrot and cucumber, dressed with olive oil, herbs and balsamic vinegar, and served to an audience of 300 people.

The performance begins with a Mozart concerto, followed by the sounds of chopping and the spectacle of the salad being thrown from the bridge, dressed and tossed. The audience are invited to participate in the performance by eating the salad created, whilst listening to Mozart performed, signalling the end of the piece.

Make a Salad has previously been staged at the Baltimore Museum of Art at the opening of the "Work Ethics" and more recently at the Wexner Museum, Colombus, Ohio, in October 2004.

Alison Knowles was born in New York City in 1933 and was a key protagonist in early Fluxus activities in the 1960s. Her performance works and Fluxus scores, such as Make a Salad, Shoreline and Newspaper Music explore notions of collective activity, using elements from everyday experiences.

Tate Modern  Turbine Hall
Free (Free concessions)