Credit: Jason Hawkes Photography

Wednesday 12 May 2010

Celebrate the Tate


Believe it or not, the Tate Modern is 10 years old this year. Yes, it's 10 whole years since the former Bankside Power Station was reborn to great acclaim as one of the world's best homes of modern art.

I can't help but think back to what I was doing in 2000. And cringe a little. We're all a lot older and wiser now. Kind of. Right?

Anyway, as much as I am fond of riffing, scatting and circumnavigating the point, let's get back to the issue here.

In honour of this auspicious birthday, the Tate Modern are holding a free festival this weekend from Friday 14th to Sunday 16th May.

Working with the apparently 'visionary' curators Maurizio Cattelan, Cecilia Alemani and Massimiliano Gioni, there will be more than 70 international, independent art collectives creating projects in the famous Turbine Hall.

Some of these collectives include White Columns (New York), Cinemateque de Tanger (Tanger), Kling and Bang (Reykjavik) and no.w.here (London) and the opportunity to see them will be extended to midnight on Friday and Saturday.

From the information I've seen this looks as though it will be a veritable feast of contemporary art and performance and allied with the knowledge that most of you are in a permanent state of hunger for creative juices, this is surely a match made in heaven...