video installation the tanks tate modern

In his works he mingles personal history, fantasy, rumour, politics and culture.

Sung Hwan Kim is known for his interdisciplinary work, incorporating installation, video, performance, music, light and drawing. The Korean artist presents the first specially commissioned installation in The Tanks, Tate Modern’s new galleries permanently dedicated to performance and film. “is complex and it leaves a bit baffled, but therefore is interesting”Īn exhibition of Sung Hwan Kim has been opened at The Tanks, Tate Modern. Korean art of Sung Hwan Kim at The Tate Modern Tanks. 'We’ll be in installation mode during the day and events mode in the evenings.' Asked about the idea of audience participation, she says that 'can be a terrifying prospect at places like the theatre, but this is more ambient, and about creating an environment that is shared'.Sung Hwan Kim, Washing Brain and Corn, 2012 © Sung Hwan Kim The programme will have a 'dual texture', Wood says. 'He treats sounds like artists treat language,' says Andrea Lissoni, the senior curator of film and moving image. Meanwhile, the Italian music producer Lorenzo Senni will unveil a new light and sound piece. The Dominican-American artist Lewis will host a series of her multisensory 'occasions', combining music, dance, food, drink and scents.Ĭheng, who is based in New York and is known for his digital and virtual reality projects, 'is experimenting with a new work that has a live presence', says Catherine Wood, Tate’s senior curator of performance. The Japanese-born artist Nakaya will create fog sculptures from water vapour during a daily performance on the terrace on top of the Tanks. Participating artists in the first exhibition include Fujiko Nakaya, Isabel Lewis and Ian Cheng. BMW has sponsored the Tate Live series of performance commissions and live-streamed online broadcasts since 2012. It follows the opening of the Tanks in summer 2012 as the world’s first museum galleries dedicated to performance, film and installation. The project is an 'essential cornerstone' of Tate’s ambition to 'become a museum of the 21st century', said Tate Modern’s director of exhibitions, Achim Borchardt-Hume, at a press conference today (23 November). The BMW Tate Live Exhibition (24 March-2 April 2017), which will be held annually, will mix installation, performance, video and sound works, marking a 'new departure in the concept of the art exhibition', the organisers say. Tate Modern is launching a ten-day exhibition of live art in and around its subterranean Tanks space next spring.

Video installation the tanks tate modern