Cecilia Wee curates Shards of Utopia, Late at Tate, Tate Britain London SW1P 4RG
Friday 9 April 2010, 18:00-22:00
Shards of Utopia is an event incorporating live art, music, installation and discussion.
Situating itself in a post-utopian world in which we struggle to accept the notion of a holistic, universal idea of utopia, Shards of Utopia explores how cultural remnants of a revolutionary and hopeful past continue to be powerfully resonant for our present.
A trio of talks on technology*:
chaired by Jen Thatcher
Mick Jones on science fiction books in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Public Library Tom Badley discusses string theory and the Holographic Principle Steven Ounanian presents a lecture-performance about a robot he made of himself for his mother in America
Utopian sounds: Jon Hawken DJs sounds between the beautiful and the sublime Taigen Kawabe performs a rite of self-purification
Explorations of the building: Emma Leach orchestrates a human news ticker They Are Here work with a professional Blue Badge Guide to present a tour of utopias and dystopias
Performances to test the constitution: Counterproductions and Jungmin Song invite gallerygoers to record their 'topian' ideas Klub Fiskulturnik encourage us to take a path towards socialist self-realisation through movement