No Soul for Sale – Tate Modern turbine hall – UK
To celebrate Tate Modern’s 10th anniversary, the gallery will host No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents. For this free arts festival, Tate Modern is inviting over 70 of the world’s most innovative independent art spaces, not-for-profit organisations and artists’ collectives, from Shanghai to Rio de Janeiro, to take over the Turbine Hall. The festival will fill the iconic Turbine Hall space with an eclectic mix of cutting-edge arts events, performances, music and film on 14-16 May 2010.
To stage No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern is working in collaboration with artist Maurizio Cattelan and curators Cecilia Alemani and Massimiliano Gioni. The festival will bring together some of the most exciting and experimental new art from around the globe, displayed in an unconventional, do-it-yourself style. Ranging from monumental structures to witty interventions, epic performances to interactive installations, participants will exhibit alongside each other without partitions or walls, creating a pop-up village of global art for visitors to explore.
Juan Duque (Co) Sam De Vocht (Be) were invited by ‘Casa Tres Patios’ Medellin – Colombia (www.casatrespatios.org) to take part with ‘Transmission’, a site installation project.
Being a Colombian citizen living in Belgium for 5 years, I am at the moment not allowed to ‘move’ or cross any physical borders. Due to my actual residence permission status, I cannot leave the country.
The condition of ‘being frozen’ for a while against my human rights of moving freely, brings bout many questions concerning my art production.
‘Transmission’ is a collaborative site-specific installation project working together with Belgian architect Sam De Vocht. The project starts at my atelier in Gent-Belgium, it continues at the ‘Casa Tres Patios’ area in the Tate Modern turbine hall and finally returns again to my work space. Using paper as the main material and support, I covered 4 m2 of floor at my atelier, left it to rest for two weeks time while I transferred the different surface patterns underneath by implementing frottage and mixed media (charcoal, black ink, linseed oil). The paper collects different prints, traces and stains from my actions and from the time passing by. This ‘cartography of a place in my atelier’ (see picture above) set up as a carpet, invites the visitors to walk over and let their own prints and traces on the paper.
At the end of the action, the work was brought back to Belgium where it will be finalized as a large drawing.
photos © Viktor Jak
general overview of exhibition © Viktor Jak
overview of installation © Viktor Jak
overview of installation © Viktor Jak
action of leaving traces with shoes – photo © Viktor Jak
action of leaving traces with stamp – photo © Viktor Jak
photo © David Grandorge
Congraaaatulations a los dos. Quiero ir al vernissage
was a brilliant space to see a variety of works together. as well as inititives.
good work on the no boarders!
cheers igenue
Very Interesting!
Thank You!
I just saw my trainers in one picture.