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Tate Modern Tour

Keyword Exchange Tours With Shannon Jackson

26 October 2016 at 01.00–01.00

Free for Members

Black-and-white video still: a woman in glasses, a suit and a visitor badge numbered '088' gestures with raised arm, mouth open mid-speech, in a museum cafe as seated diners look on

Andrea Fraser, Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk 1989. Tate. © Andrea Fraser; courtesy Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin.

Tour the Switch House and imagine new languages for describing works in the collection

Join members of Tate staff, alongside theorist Shannon Jackson, to explore new and old terms for describing contemporary art and artistic experience. Tours meet by the Turbine Hall ticket desk and cover a range of displays in the Switch House.

Keyword Exchange Tours

12.00 Laurence Van Der Noordaa (Keyword: Relational). This is an audio described tour.

12.30 Vassilis Oikonomopoulos (Keyword: Live). This tour will focus on Philippe Parreno’s Anywhen, the Hyundai Commission in the Turbine Hall.

13.00 Gerry Moore (Keyword: Performativity)

13.30 Bernard Horrocks (Keyword: Participation)

14.00 Ksenia Belash (Keyword: Relational)

14.30 Judith Wilkinson (Keyword: Improvisation)

15.00 Valentina Ravaglia (Keyword: Curating)

15.30 Christopher Griffin (Keyword: Score)

16.00 Valentina Ravaglia (Keyword: Participation)

While the Keyword Exchange Tours are taking place, Tate Library staff will offer a display exploring the term Ephemerality from 12pm to 5pm in Tate Exchange (Level 5, Switch House). The display will feature a selection of printed ephemera from the Tate Library collection, including private view cards, postcards, fliers and posters, as well as artists’ books and multiples.

Tate Modern

Please meet by the ticket desk in the Turbine Hall

Bankside
London SE1 9TG
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Date & Time

26 October 2016 at 01.00–01.00

Pricing

Free

Please bring your confirmation email or booking reference number.

When booking please select the time slot that corresponds to the tour you would like to join.

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