Tarek Atoui is a sound artist and composer whose installations change how we experience sound, not only through our ears but through our whole bodies. For this year's Hyundai Commission, Atoui has transformed the Turbine Hall into a vast sonic landscape, bringing ancient families of instruments into dialogue with electronic technologies.
Hyundai Commission is in partnership with Hyundai Motor. Supported by the Tarek Atoui Supporters Circle and Tate Americas Foundation.
Programme
Performance: Nkisi & Mhamad Safa
Electronic musicians Nkisi and Mhamad Safa plug into and play Tarek Atoui’s Hyundai Commission as a sound system.
Throughout the six-month commission, Atoui has invited a network of musicians across multiple genres to collaborate, compose, improvise and play. Each performance creates a different relationship between the musicians and the installation, situating gathering, collaboration and collective listening at the heart of the commission.
See the main Live Programme page for more information.
Mhamad Safa
Mhamad Safa is a London-based musician, sound artist, and architect whose practice spans various sonic worlds, including sound for moving images, sound installations, and research in acoustics. He conveys these auditory inquiries by combining sound design, micro-sampling, algorithmic sound technology, psychoacoustics, field recordings, and their graphic interpretations. His music was released on labels such as UIQ in the UK and Ruptured in Lebanon. He has performed and presented sound work at the ICA, Sharjah Architecture Triennial, the Bergen Assembly, the Goethe Institute, the Barbican, Showroom gallery, among others.
Nkisi
Nkisi is an electronic musician and artist-composer whose work spans live performance, sonic research, and energetic experimentation. With roots in the Congolese diaspora and a deep commitment to African cosmologies, her music combines rhythmic-noise elements with ancient rhythmic structures, ambient-industrial strategies, and metaphysical inquiry. She is the co-founder of the now-legendary NON Worldwide. She leads research through her project The Anomaly Index, which explores sonic phenomena, myth-science, rhythm, and vibration as counter-epistemologies.
Performance: Shannon-Latoyah Simon
Be immersed in a soundscape where texture slowly shifts and time unfolds.
Blending field recordings, an alchemy of instruments, loops, drones, soft noise and glitch, Shannon creates environments that feel like returning home or sinking into a landscape. She treats sound as living advice, seeing the spaces between sound and the breath exist as an archival instrument and a vessel of remembrance.
Shannon-Latoyah Simon
Shannon-Latoyah Simon is a classical guitarist and interdisciplinary sound artist specialising in new and experimental music. She is also a sound healer and energy worker who brings deep passion and devotion to her practice. Her work is deeply rooted in embodied listening and sonic awareness.
Shannon has recently performed and collaborated with Tarek Atoui, Shabeeb Abu Hamdan, Elvin Brandhi, Li-Chin Li, Sarah Ourahmane and Pike at YDP, Waste Paper Opera at London Performance Studios, and the Haunted Network Research Initiative at Café OTO.
Music: Sister Midnight FM
Catford community radio station Sister Midnight FM programmes music across the night.
Talks: 10 Minute Talks
Various times, throughout the building
Join Ten Minute Talks and meet volunteers from across Tate who bring our artworks to life as they share personal insights and fresh perspectives into works from the collection.
Create: Tate Draw
Starr Foyer, Natalie Bell Building, Level 1
Blavatnik Building, Level 3
18.00-21.30
Head to our drawing desks and bring your work to life using digital sketch pads.
Tate Draw is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Useful Info
Head to the Corner Bar and Terrace Bar for cocktails, craft beers and wines.
Plus find plenty of non-alcoholic options at all our bars, and delicious food at the Corner Bar and Pop-up Bars.
- Pop-up Bars: Turbine Hall, Level 0 & Bridge, Level 1
- Corner Bar: Natalie Bell Building, Level 1
- Terrace Bar: Blavatnik Building, Level 1
- Espresso Bar: Blavatnik Building, Level 10
All Tate Modern entrances are step-free. You can enter via the Turbine Hall and into the Natalie Bell Building on Holland Street, or into the Blavatnik Building on Sumner street. There are lifts to every floor of the Blavatnik and Natalie Bell buildings. Alternatively you can take the stairs.
- Fully accessible toilets are located on every floor on the concourses.
- A quiet room is available to use in the Natalie Bell Building on Level 4.
- Ear defenders can be borrowed from the Ticket desks.
To help plan your visit to Tate Modern, have a look at our visual story. It includes photographs and information about what you can expect from a visit to the gallery.
For more information before your visit:
- Email hello@tate.org.uk
- Call +44 (0)20 7887 8888 (daily 10.00–17.00)
