Philippe Parreno – ‘It’s a Half-Mechanic, Half-Organic Machine’ | TateShots (2016)¶
Philippe Parreno – ‘It’s a Half-Mechanic, Half-Organic Machine’ | TateShots from Tate on YouTube.
Description¶
In October 2016, Philippe Parreno transformed Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall into an immersive experience, challenging visitors' perception of time and space with his Anywhen installation. Anywhen was a site-specific exhibition that changed throughout the day and that would evolve during the six-month period of the commission, until 2 April 2017.
Visitors would have their senses activated and stimulated by a spectacular choreography of acoustics, sound lighting, flying objects and film, each connected to the other, and playing their part in a far bigger score. Tate’s Turbine Hall became a universe of inter-related and connected events and parallel realities. Events would unfold anywhen.
Philippe Parreno is a French avant-garde artist who came to prominence in the 1990s and is perhaps most widely known for his feature film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait. Parreno works across film, video, sound, sculpture, performance and information technology and collaborates extensively with musicians, scientists, architects and writers. Cutting-edge musicians Factory Floor and the award-winning sound designer Nicolas Becker are just some of the many collaborators involved in the commission.
References¶
HYUNDAI COMMISSION: PHILIPPE PARRENO: ANYWHEN
The Turbine Hall is transformed into an immersive experience, challenging your perception of time and space
Prepare to have your senses activated and stimulated by a spectacular choreography of acoustics, sound lighting, flying objects and film, each connected to the other and playing their part in a far bigger score. Tate’s Turbine Hall becomes a universe of inter-related and connected events and parallel realities. Events will unfold anywhen.
Anywhen is a site-specific exhibition that changes throughout the day and that will evolve during the six-month period of the commission. The exhibition is conceived as an automaton which guides the public through a constantly changing play of moving elements, light configurations and sound environments. The artist states that ‘the exhibition is a construction of situations or sequences in a non-linear narrative’.
The commission responds to the Turbine Hall’s position at the centre of the museum, an open space connected to the city itself. The artist combines aspects of chance and control: the sequences of events are triggered by software which is informed by micro-organisms. These react to and activate elements of the commission through a bioreactor visible at the far end of the Turbine Hall.
Included in Anywhen is Another Day with Another Sun 2014 by Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno.
Curated by Andrea Lissoni, Senior Curator, International Art (Film), with Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, Assistant Curator