Enmeshed brings together artists who explore land rights and ancestral knowledge systems through textiles. This free talk is an opportunity to expand your experience of the display with screenings of related works and a conversation with the artists. The talk will take place in the Starr Cinema and will be followed by a guided walk-through in The Tanks.
Programme
- Introduction
- Screening: Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser, Piña, Why is the Sky Blue? 2020, digital video, 28 min, Spanish, Kichwa, Visayan, Tagalog and English, with English subtitles
- Reading by Léuli Eshrāghi
- Screening: Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Infinite Nectar, 2019, digital video, colour, sound, 11 min, captioned
- Panel Discussion: Léuli Eshrāghi, Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser, and Alan Michelson
Audience Questions - Walk-through of the The Tanks displays, Blavatnik Building Level 0, with artists present
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan (b.1984, Turkey) is an artist with a multidisciplinary practice who considers notions of absence and invisibility with respect to the aquatic nature of memory, time and space.
Stephanie Comilang (b.1980, Canada) is an artist living and working between Toronto and Berlin. Her documentary based works create narratives that look at how our understandings of mobility, capital and labour on a global scale are shaped through various cultural and social factors.
Léuli Eshrāghi (b.1986, Australia, Yuwi Country) is an artist working in Sāmoa, Australia and Canada. They are of Sāmoan/Persian/Cantonese ancestry, and work across forms of creativity. They intervene in display territories to centre global Indigenous and Asian diasporic visuality, sensual and spoken languages, and ceremonial-political practices.
Alan Michelson (b.1953, United States) is an internationally recognised New York-based artist, curator, writer, lecturer and Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River. For over thirty years, he has been a leading practitioner of a socially engaged, critically aware, site-specific art grounded in local context and informed by the retrieval of suppressed histories.
Simon Speiser (b.1988, Germany) is an artist who conjures fictional concepts that merge nature with technology. Placing a variety of media and disciplines in dialogue with one another ranging from writing, sculpture, and printing to video and VR installations, Speiser’s work expands the possibilities between art and science fiction, balancing hopeful visions against the traditionally dystopian genre.
All Tate Modern entrances are step-free. You can enter via the Turbine Hall and into the Natalie Bell Building on Holland Street, or into the Blavatnik Building on Sumner street.
The Starr Cinema is on Level 1 of the Natalie Bell Building. There are lifts to every floor of the Blavatnik and Nathalie Bell buildings. Alternatively you can take the stairs.
There is space for wheelchairs and a hearing loop is available.
All works screened in the Starr Cinema have English captions.
- Fully accessible toilets are located on every floor on the concourses.
- A quiet room is available to use in the Natalie Bell Building on Level 4.
- Ear defenders can be borrowed from the Ticket desks.
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