BMW Tate Live Exhibition 2018: Ten Days Six Nights.

London. Tate Modern will stage its second annual BMW
Tate Live Exhibition in March 2018 in the atmospheric subterranean
Tanks. Joan Jonas, a pioneer of performance art, will be this year’s
focus coinciding with a major survey of her work in the galleries
above. Unfolding over ten days and six nights, BMW Tate Live
Exhibition 2018 will showcase Jonas’s performances and installations
including ground-breaking works not staged for 40 years. Her work will
be presented in dialogue with an intergenerational selection of
artists – including Jason Moran, Mark Leckey, Sylvia Palacios Whitman
and Jumana Emil Abboud – demonstrating her lasting legacy and powerful
impact on contemporary artists today.

 

Graeme Grieve, Chief Executive Officer, BMW Group UK and Ireland
said: “BMW is proud of its long relationship with Tate Modern and
especially in the evolution of BMW Tate Live, launched in its
well-received new format last year. It is particularly exciting that
Joan Jonas will take centre stage, amongst an array of cutting-edge
performance artists at the event next March, having featured in one of
our BMW Tate Live Performance Room events back in 2013. We look
forward to joining forces with Tate again next year from what I am
sure will be another memorable event.”

 

Throughout the exhibition’s ten days, visitors will be invited to
explore a series of installations in the Tanks. These will include
Joan Jonas’ acclaimed installation “Reanimation”, a spellbinding
environment made from projected footage of Arctic landscapes and light
refracted through dozens of hanging crystals. Also on display will be
two early sculptural works by Jonas: “Cones/May Windows (After
Mirage)” 1976 and “Stage Sets” 1977. Jonas’ interest in myth-making
and mystery will be echoed in a new commission in the Tanks foyer by
Jumana Emil Abboud drawing on Palestinian folklore and fairy tales.

 

The six night programme will open with Jonas performing live together
with her long-time collaborator, the celebrated jazz pianist and
composer Jason Moran. The third and fourth nights will be dedicated to
three seminal performances from a formative period in Jonas’ career:
“Mirror Check”, “Mirror Piece II” and “Mirage”. The final weekend will
focus on Chilean-American artist Sylvia Palacios Whitman, a peer of
Jonas who also came to prominence in New York in the 1970s. She will
perform for the first time in the UK and will debut a new
collaboration with Christopher Rauschenberg, son of legendary
experimental artist Robert Rauschenberg. The last night will also
feature a participatory performance by Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey.

 

In addition to the ticketed evening programme, there will be daily
free performances of Jonas’ “Mirror Piece II”, and at low tide the
exhibition will extend onto the banks of the Thames for a newly
reconfigured version of Jonas’ performance “Delay Delay”, an outdoor
ritual which will play out on Bankside’s shoreline each day.

 

The exhibition follows the success of this year’s inaugural BMW Tate
Live Exhibition, which welcomed tens of thousands of visitors in
spring 2017. Part of Tate Modern’s ongoing performance programme in
partnership with BMW, the first Ten Days Six Nights broke new ground
for the exhibition format with an ever-changing programme of
installations and live performances. Taking place in the Tanks, the
world’s first museum spaces dedicated to performance, film and
installation, as well as on the new terrace above, it included a fog
sculpture by Fujiko Nakaya, a plant-filled environment for dance and
debate by Isabel Lewis, and a host of one-off performances and screenings.

 

BMW Tate Live Exhibition 2018: Ten Days Six Nights is curated by
Catherine Wood, Senior Curator of International Art (Performance),
Andrea Lissoni, Senior Curator of International Art (Film) and
Isabella Maidment, Assistant Curator of Performance.

 

About BMW Tate Live

BMW Tate Live is a major international partnership between BMW and
Tate, which aims to foreground the pivotal role of live
experimentation in art history and among artists working today. The
programme has now showcased over 50 artists including both emerging
and more familiar figures from across the world. It began in 2012 with
the world’s first performance programme created for live online
broadcast, and evolved into an ongoing series of performances at Tate
Modern. As performance took on an increasingly key role in Tate
Modern’s vision for the future of the museum, the first annual BMW
Tate Live Exhibition was opened in the Tanks in 2017. For further
information, please visit tate.org.uk/bmwtatelive

 

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Dr Thomas Girst

BMW Group Corporate and Governmental Affairs

Cultural Engagement

Telephone: +49 89 382 247 53

Leonie Laskowski

BMW Group Corporate and Intergovernmental Affairs

Cultural Engagement

Telephone: +49-89-382-45382

 

Duncan Holden Senior Press Officer, Tate Telephone: +44-20-7887-4939
E-mail: pressoffice@tate.org.uk

 

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For almost 50 years now, the BMW Group has initiated and engaged in
over 100 cultural cooperations worldwide. The company places the main
focus of its long-term commitment on contemporary and modern art,
classical music and jazz as well as architecture and design. In 1972,
three large-scale paintings were created by the artist Gerhard Richter
specifically for the foyer of the BMW Group’s Munich headquarters.
Since then, artists such as Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Daniel Barenboim,
Jonas Kaufmann and architect Zaha Hadid have co-operated with BMW. In
2016 and 2017, female artist Cao Fei from China and American John
Baldessari created the next two vehicles for the BMW Art Car
Collection. Besides co-initiatives, such as BMW Tate Live, the BMW Art
Journey and the “Opera for All” concerts in Berlin, Munich and London,
the company also partners with leading museums and art fairs as well
as orchestras and opera houses around the world. The BMW Group takes
absolute creative freedom in all its cultural activities – as this
initiative is as essential for producing groundbreaking artistic work
as it is for major innovations in a successful business.

 

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