Ten Days, Six Nights - no, it's not some weird European erotic film, but a week and a half of live art in and around Tate Modern's tanks. There's loads going on throughout the week, with the daytimes all free and the evening performances ticketed at various prices. The full list of what's happening can be found by clicking here, but to help you decide what to see, here's our pick of the best events to catch.
1 A cloud of fog by Fujiko Nakaya
Go fog yourself in Fujiko Nakaya’s swirling sculpture made of mist, which will be enveloping the Tate’s terrace for the duration of the show. Nakaya has been creating fog sculptures since the 1970s, obscuring everything from bridges to forests in her signature damp blankets of atmosphere.
2 A dinner party as art by Isabel Lewis
Food, drink, dance, music and scent all get mashed up in Isabel Lewis’s ‘Occasions’, which are basically massive coordinated art shindigs – part performance, part installation. She’ll be hosting these occasions throughout the week, and visitors are actively encouraged to get involved in putting the art in party.
3 A world of drone by Phill Niblock
This interdisciplinary art pioneer (he dips his big artistic toe into everything from dance to music to film) is doing a night of early film pieces. It’s all accompanied by dance and new music that does the usual brilliant Niblock thing of building up layer upon layer of heavy, heady and totally overwhelming drone sounds.
4 Some weird shit by Wu Tsang and Fred Moten
Apparently, this is ‘a sculptural performance using fabric and sound to explore the social and physical significance of touch and voice.’ I have absolutely no idea what that is, but it sounds fun.
