This bit of latst minute news came in from Luke at the Tate. For the first time skateboarders will be skating in the turbine hall of Tate Modern to create a work of art. This is part of UBS Openings: The Long Weekend, an annual festival which is running from this weekend.
Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer West will create a new film live in the gallery by uniting an unlikely mix of ink, film strips and skateboarding. In this unique event, titled Skate the Sky Melon Grab Film, West will build on her previous experiments with everyday materials such as pepper spray or Axe body cologne used to physically manipulate celluloid.
West will stage a performance in the Turbine Hall for which a team of skate-boarders will traverse ink-covered film strips, their wheels scraping into the celluloid and marking their movements in complex and psychedelic patterns. This live event will be followed by a screening of the films created plus a selection of West’s earlier films.
Performance, Friday 22 May,West End, Turbine Hall 19.00 – 20.30
Screening, Saturday 23 May, Starr Auditorium, 19.00 – 20.30