Steak Zombies workshop at the Tate Britain
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Tuesday 20 February
11.00–16.00
Steak Zombies – Go on a mission of discovery in Tate Britain. Become an activist with craft. Explore your powers of expression and customise your own action figure.
Steak Zombies.
Steak Zombies use fashion and its processes as a means of expression. The workshop will involve Tate forum, who will present and interpret specific works of art from the Tate Britain collection on displays.
The group will be asked to focus on Mark Wallinger display as well as work of their choice, to create ideas and influence for the content of the work produced during the day.
Steak Zombies will take the group into a world where they create rules, identities and hand made characters, which they can customize, to engage the young people in making, exploring the gallery environment, and the art on display to unravel democracy and freedom of expression.
Maximum 25 poeple
Brian Haw began his protest against the economic sanction in Iraq in June 2001,
and has remained opposite the Palace of Westminster ever since. On 23 May 2006, following the passing by Parliament of the ‘Serious Organised Crime and Police Act’ prohibiting unauthorised demonstrations within a one kilometre radius of Parliament Square, the majority of Haw’s protest was removed. Taken literally, the edge of this exclusion zone bisects Tate Britain. Wallinger has marked a line on the floor of the galleries throughout the building, positioning State Britain half inside and half outside
the border.
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Monday 19 February
11.00–16.00
Doodlebug – Come and mix street based art, VJing, graphic doodles, and the Tate Collection with International Doodlebug.
International Doodlebug are a street art group based in Manchester. They use drawing, doodling and forms of street art as a way of changing and engaging in a space.
The workshop will involve viewing the exhibitions and displays at Tate Britain with Tate Forum. Tate Forum will present interpretations and engage the group in using the works, with focus on Mark Wallinger, as influence on the content of the work produced during the day.
The young people will be set the task of creating images around the themes of radicalism, freedom of expression and democracy. The group will draw, paint, collage, access digital images and display via VJ (Video Jocky), and create characters, which will reflect street art, the Tate Collection merging to express the themes of the day.
During the session the images will be used by a VJ to create atmosphere and Layers which will merge the work to form a unique perspective of art and politics using the Tate Collection, offering an opportunity for young people to express themselves around issues that directly effect their lives.
Examples of International Doodlebug can be seen at www.interdoodle.co.uk
Refreshment will be served
Lunch will not be provided.
Maximum 25 people
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Wednesday 21 February
11.00–16.00
• Heavens Below – Develop your debating skills in the morning at the Houses of Parliament and in the afternoon, question the establishment and create your own Utopia with artists Oliva Plender and Paul Richards. The young people will visit the House of commons.
All sessions include a variety of tours and talks by Tate Forum and this year’s Visual Dialogues group, both of which are groups of young people currently working at Tate Britain. There is particular focus on the work of Mark Wallinger.
Maximum 20 people - 15–23 year-olds only.
The events will take place at Tate Britain, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG. Nearest Tube Pimlico.
Credit line:
Visual Dialogues is a partnership programme managed by Tate. Other partners are Birmingham Art Gallery, Sheffield Museums and Galleries Trust, Tyne and Wear Museums (Laing Art Gallery) and Tate Britain, London. It is funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Education and Skills as part of the Strategic Commissioning Education Programme, 2006–07.