Poetry and Dream is closed! All hail Absence and Hope!
Tate Modern is transforming. After nine years of loyal service, the popular Level 2 West gallery Poetry and Dream has now closed. Inspired by questions of the spaces that open when things go missing, and who you are -unwittingly – carrying around with you when you go to a gallery, on Saturday 31 October, we invite you to come and join us to imagine a temporary and ephemeral new display titled: Absence and Hope.
Throughout the day, theatre maker Rachel Mars invites you to join her for a ten-minute session, using the artworks in the Energy and Process gallery on Level 4 as a point of reference to initiate conversations about people, memory and invention.
The diverse conversations will contribute to the evening launch of Tate Modern’s most temporary of displays in a form of a performance folding in the public's newly created cast of characters and artworks, both real and imagined. The public performance will take place in the Level 6 East Room at 19.30.
Absence and Hope: We need you. No knowledge of history, art, theatre, poetry or dreams required.
Watch the performance below:
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Biography
Rachel Mars is a performance maker borrowing from theatre, live art and comedy. She is currently interested in inherited cultural behaviours, familial interactions and the language of pop and politics. Most recently she has been commissioned by Home Live Art, Fuel Theatre and Ovalhouse London.
This event has been developed in partnership with The Royal Court Theatre.