Making Memeries
Introduction presents a programme of events that explore the blurring boundaries surrounding on/offline existence and distribution of photographs. Before the advent of the Internet the act of taking a photo was often intended to make memories; to store and preserve our past in still, printed images. In today s digital age the act of taking photos can be enough for the photograph-taker. The act is exhausted by the process. This can be seen in the way a mobile phone camera offers immediate satisfaction producing a file that may never be looked at again. Today a photo has a different claim to time, being much more in the now than in the this has been of its 19th and 20th century pre-internet forbearers. We, in turn, live in a culture of the perpetual present, in a meme-driven world where photos can effortlessly be shared, but where they most often disappear into digital oblivion. How do contemporary photographers produce and operate in such an environment? How do they challenge it? Fifteen international artists answer these questions in a series of workshops and performances at Making Memeries at Tate Modern. To provide answers they stretch and contextualize their photographic practices, making them suitable for consumption by a live audience, as well as online. The audience at the Tate Modern will be asked to play; to test their own experience and understanding of contemporary photographic language. Participating artists Lucas Blalock Kenta Cobayashi & Yuuki Takada Lalu Delbracio ECAL Jean-Vincent Simonet & Charlotte Krieger Flat Fix Felicity Hammond Anouk Kruithof Namsa Leuba & Kezia Frederick OOMK Naohiro Utagawa is an organization founded in 2010 that collects, studies and celebrates self-published photobooks through an ongoing program of workshops, live events, and on/offline projects. Self Publish, Be Happy has organized events in a number of institutions, including Tate Modern, The Photographers Gallery, Serpentine Galleries, C/O Berlin, MoMA PS1, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg. s London-based collection contains over three thousand publications. Each book has been submitted by self-publishers from around the world. Its offspring projects, SPBH Editions and SPBH TV, further expand the organization s outreach and experimentation with different mediums.
Programme Friday 20 May 18:00 21:00 Sound & Vision: The Moving Body Kenta Cobayashi and Yuuki Takada In collaboration with Newfave and Goliga 21:00 22:00 Duel 1: Jean-Vincent Simonet VS Charlotte Krieger ECAL / Ecole Cantonale d art de Lausanne Saturday 21 May 12:30 14:44.Gif us Zines A workshop by OOMK 15:00 15:45 Hunger Lalu Delbracio Supported by Cass Art 16:00 18:00 The Language of Living Felicity Hammond Supported by Metro Imaging 18:30 20:00 Connection Anouk Kruithof Supported by Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands 22:00 1:00 Offsite project at Corsica Studios 4/5 Elephant Rd. Duel 2: Jean-Vincent Simonet VS Charlotte Krieger A performance by ECAL Sunday 22 May 12:30 14:45 As After A workshop by Flat Fix 15:00 15:45 Hunger Lalu Delbracio Supported by Cass Art 16:00 18:00 Kè fila Namsa Leuba and Kezia Frederick Supported by Embassy of Switzerland in the United Kingdom Everyday Friday 6pm 10pm Saturday 12am 8pm Sunday 12am 6 pm McAulay Schools & Family Room Tate Modern Hakoniwa A Performance by Naohiro Utagawa 20 22 May 2016 Offprint London Friday 6pm 10pm Saturday 12am 8pm Sunday 12am 6 pm Tate Modern, Turbine Hall Bankside, SE1 9TG London, UK Free entrance More Information: selfpublishbehappy.com
An installation by Lucas Blalock, in collaboration with Reify and Tankboys Making Memeries is a new commission by US artist Lucas Blalock. Blalock has created an installation for Tate Modern s Turbine Hall that functions as a staging area for workshops and performances. The installation consists of a set of eight movable panels inspired by theatre scenery. Designed by Italian studio Tankboys the flats display a new suite of photographs by Blalock. The elements of this installation can be activated via an app. This app can be downloaded onto your mobile phone. You will be able to immerse yourself in, and interact with, Blalock s photos via this app, which uses the phone s camera to produce a digitally augmented reality. Blalock s work has long been interested in how the worldly and the virtual cohabit behind a photograph s surface. This project enables him to visualise this cohabitation on both sides of that plane. Blalock has collaborated with REIFY, an augmented reality (AR) creative studio, to build an exceptional experience that blurs traditional boundaries and challenges one s expectations of viewership. Interact with Lucas Blalock s photographs. Download the app Making Memeries in the itunes App Store or via Google Play Making Memeries A project by Self Publish, Be Happy In partnership with Tate Modern & Offprint Projects Programmed by Bruno Ceschel Curatorial Assistants Catalina L. Imizcoz and Thandi Mbire Project Manager Nicoletta Barbata A project by Title Sponsor Official Suppliers In Partnership with Technical Sponsor Institutional Sponsors Exhibition Design Tankboys Marco Campardo & Lorenzo Mason Design Assistants Alessandro De Mitri, Simone Spinazzè and Harry Walker SPBH would like to thank Simon Baker, Yannick Bouillis, Dianna Cohen, Chris Dercon, Edwina Marks, Bianca Redgrave, David Solo, and Allison Wood
Offprint London 2016 20 22 May 2016 Tate Modern, Turbine Hall