This two-day event foregrounds artistic practices taking place outdoors. It expands on Tate Modern’s exhibitions and displays of Ana Mendieta, Richard Long and Britto Arts Trust. Like Spores, We Spread centres situated relations with land and memory, taking into account notions of reciprocity and responsibility for what surrounds us and that we are a part of.
With invited artists and contributors, we explore how living environments become hosts for works that cannot be confined by gallery walls. Rather than approaching the outdoors as a neutral space, the event considers territory as a relational field shaped by displacement, ecological entanglements and colonial legacies.
Like Spores, We Spread invites communal pedagogical experiments of reading, walking and eating together in the spirit of an outdoor summer school. The event thinks back to 1960-70s historical precedents; practices that ventured out and are now germinating through collective forms of transmission, movement, listening and shared learning.
Organised by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor, in collaboration with the Laboratoire d’art et de recherche décoloniaux (LabARD), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).
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)
