The Long Weekend

The Tate Modern has an exciting weekend of events lined up.  The UBS Openings: The Long Weekend begins today and will run through Monday, celebrating the opening of the Museum’s new Collection displays, which have just changed for the first time since the gallery opened. Each day of the four-day festival is themed around one of the four new wings of the displays.

Tonight is "Futurist Friday", and Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (the 1927 film directed by Walther Ruttmann and presents a typical day in Berlin from dawn until midnight) will be shown and accompanied live by DJ Spooky That Sublimminal Kid.  The film will be projected throughout the museum's "Turbine Hall" as a large scale intervention as a one evening event. The basic idea is to create a situation in the tradition of John cage, Allan Kaprow, Sun Ra, and Grand Master Flash.   The "Symphony..." event will use the museum as a projection canvas. The film starts at 9:00 pm (more info can be found here), but Spooky will also be signing copies of Rhythm Science at the Tate Modern Bookstore at 7:00 pm. 

If you're in London, come out! It'll be a really fun art-happening!