London. From March 20 to 29, the annual BMW Tate Live Exhibition,
realised through the long-term partnership between Tate Modern and
BMW, goes into its fourth edition. This year’s programme features
Faustin Linyekula, Okwui Okpokwasili and Tanya Lukin Linklater, who
will come together to create ten days of live performances and
site-specific installations for Tate Modern’s atmospheric underground
Tanks. The artists, who draw on their individual cultural heritages,
each use the body in different ways to explore history, inheritance
and storytelling.
About the Artists
Faustin Linyekula (b.1974) blends theatre, dance and music to
articulate his experiences of social-political tensions in the
Democratic Republic of Congo. Imagining the body as an archive he
works with a circle of collaborators to physically express the
traumatic legacies of colonialism and the upheaval of the DRC’s
history since independence.
Okwui Okpokwasili (b.1972) explores the collision of memory and the
present in her durational performances, activating installations
designed by her partner Peter Born. Brought up in the Bronx, New York,
Okpokwasili’s intensely physical performances make visible the
experiences of women of colour, sometimes drawing from her Nigerian roots.
Tanya Lukin Linklater (b.1976) uses performance, poetry and
installations to call attention to Indigenous histories. Originating
from two communities in the Kodiak archipelago of southwestern Alaska
– the Native Villages of Afognak and Port Lions – Lukin Linklater
draws on interactions with her extended family, Indigenous knowledge
and Alutiiq and Cree experiences on the land to inform her work.
Each artist raises questions about shared memory, visibility and the
relationship between material culture and immaterial tradition,
challenging what these ideas mean within the context of a modern art museum.
Visitors can freely explore the exhibition during gallery hours or
attend ticketed evening performances. The programme will also be
accompanied by live events and collaborative workshops.
BMW Tate Live Exhibition 2020 will be the fourth edition of this
experimental annual exhibition, following Anne Imhof’s sell-out
performances last year as well as the success of the first two
exhibitions 2017 and 2018. These groundbreaking programmes pioneered a
new model for the exhibition format with an ever-changing series of
installations and live performances across ten days. Taking place in
the Tanks, the world’s first museum spaces dedicated to performance,
film and installation, the BMW Tate Live Exhibitions have showcased a
wide range of artists including Joan Jonas, Fujiko Nakaya, Isabel
Lewis, Jason Moran, Min Tanaka, Jumana Emil Abboud, Wu Tsang and Fred Moten.
BMW Tate Live Exhibition 2020 is curated by Catherine Wood and Tamsin
Hong and produced by Judith Bowdler.
For further questions please contact:
Doris Fleischer
BMW Group Corporate and Intergovernmental
Affairs
Cultural Engagement
Telephone: +49 89 382
27806
Email: Doris.Fleischer@bmw.de
Prof. Dr Thomas Girst
BMW Group Corporate and Intergovernmental
Affairs
Head of Cultural Engagement
Telephone: +49 89 382
247 53
Email: Thomas.Girst@bmwgroup.com
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Kitty Malton
Press Communications Manager,
Tate
Telephone: +44 20 7887 8730
Email: Kitty.Malton@tate.org.uk
About BMW Tate Live
BMW Tate Live is a major international partnership between BMW
and Tate, which foregrounds the pivotal role of live experimentation
in art history and today. The programme has now featured over 55
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 later evolved into an
ongoing series of public performances in and around Tate Modern. As
performance took on an ever-greater role in Tate Modern’s vision for
the museum, the first annual BMW Tate Live Exhibition was opened in
the Tanks in 2017.
Further information: https://tate.org.uk/bmwtatelive
About BMW Group Cultural Engagement
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, Moscow and
London, the company also partners with leading museums and art fairs
as well as orchestras and opera houses around the world. As part of
its art programme “Muse”, Rolls-Royce partners for the initiative “The
Dream Commission” with two internationally esteemed art institutions.
Together with Fondation Beyeler and Serpentine Galleries, emerging and
established artists are invited to submit a moving-image work that
delivers an immersive sensory experience. The artists are nominated
and chosen by renowned personalities of the art world like Daniel,
Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Cao Fei, and Theodora Vischer. BMW Group
takes absolute creative freedom in all its cultural activities for
granted – as this initiative is as essential for producing
groundbreaking artistic work as it is for major innovations in a
successful business.
Further information: www.bmwgroup.com/culture
and www.bmwgroup.com/culture/overview
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