Tate Modern Exhibition

Sliding Doors: Recent Contemporary Acquisitions

16 December 2006 – 22 April 2007

Carsten Höller, Sliding Doors 2003. Tate. © Carsten Höller.

This new display presents Tate’s first acquisition of work by Carsten Höller, the artist who created the latest Unilever Series commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Höller’s intriguing work, Sliding Doors, consists of a seemingly never-ending hall of life-size mirrors which people can walk through on a road to nowhere. Surrounding this work, are other new acquisitions which play with viewer’s perceptions and invite them to engage with the unexpected. These include Angela Bulloch’s Belisha beacons, a fascinating sound piece by Trisha Donnelly, a video work by Ulla von Brandenburg and intriguing photographs by Tim Lee and Sharon Lockhart.

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Dates

16 December 2006 – 22 April 2007

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The Unilever Series: Carsten Höller: Test site

The Unilever Series: Carsten Höller: Test site, Turbine Hall installation

View of Test Site installed in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, showing the five spriralling tubular slides that ran from the upper floors of the Gallery to ground level

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Art of Interaction: A Theoretical Examination of Carsten Höller’s Test Site

Mark Windsor

This paper looks at the interactivity of Carsten Höller’s Test Site 2006, using Alfred Gell’s Art and Agency (1998) and Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics (1998). In the first part Gell is used to examine the interactive relationships between artist and participants mediated by the slides, the aesthetic quality and political significance of which are then revealed in the second part with reference to Bourriaud.

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Wavelength: On Drawing and Sound in the Work of Trisha Donnelly

Anna Lovatt

This article considers the relationship between drawing and sound in the work of American artist Trisha Donnelly (born 1974). Against recent theories of the demise of individual media, Donnelly’s work is seen to indicate a more complex set of cross-modal and inter-medial relationships.