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Late at Tate Britain: From Tomorrow

From tomorrow

museum late

Feb 7 2020

Based on imagined futures, sci-fi and speculative design, I curated an experimental and conceptual night that revolved around presenting Tate’s audience with fictional future scenarios. This was to test out how ‘open’ a museum can be to interpretation and prompting investigation within our visitors. By using fictional futures, it allowed them to reach their own conclusions of how to get to a specific future rather than being guided by someone - as we so often see in conversations around/on futures. ‘From Tomorrow’ as a title reflects this sentimentality of free-form thinking towards a future. It is about the act of looking back from the future and not to look to the future which allows our contributors to think more freely out of reality's grasp.

Since the Late at Tate Britain audience is mainly made up of 16-25 year olds, BAME, visitors with over a third being first-time museum goers, it was imperative that I made the event accessible. To do so, I broke the pedagogical approach down into three levels: visual, ideological and institutional to then interrogate racial, gender and ecological issues. This meant that it was also easier for our audiences to digest and discuss the issues presented by the different activations (workshops, talks, performances) that layered upon one another amongst different levels of interaction.

 

The late proved highly successful drawing over 2,300 visitors to Tate Britain.
 

Artists:

Anab Jain 

Beatrice Dillon

Bethany Williams

Charley Genever

Gabriel Myerscough

Kibwe Tavares

Niya B

VVFA (Very Very Far Away)

Late at Tate Britain - From Tomorrow_Dan
Late at Tate Britain - From Tomorrow_Dan
Late at Tate Britain - From Tomorrow_Dan
Late at Tate Britain - From Tomorrow_Dan
Late at Tate Britain - From Tomorrow_Dan
Late at Tate Britain - From Tomorrow_Dan
Late at Tate Britain - From Tomorrow_Dan
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