Site-Specific Protest: Liberate Tate’s Performances At Tate Modern

Download

metujfa2019208.pdf

Date

2019-01-01

Author

Pinar, Ekin

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

160
views

148
downloads

This paper analyzes the site-specific performances of Liberate Tate, an artist collective that staged protests at Tate galleries to oppose the institution's sponsorship deal with the multinational corporation BP. Arguing that the aesthetic, spatial, political, social, and ecological components of Liberate Tate's works are intricately enmeshed, the paper offers a dose visual analysis of the performances in relation to one of their sites, Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. Doing so, the paper demonstrates how the artist collective reacted to the socio-political structuring of the physical space in their own political mode of aesthetics. The site-specific works of the group attend to and confront the museum space to such an extent that the intervened space becomes Liberate Tate's principal medium. Through their horizontal arrangement mode, choice of messy, dirty, and viscous materials, and approach to nature, culture, and history as inseparable concepts, Liberate Tate's site-specific performances challenge the hegemonic neoliberal rhetoric of Tate Modern. The contrasts and conflicts Liberate Tate introduces against the visual discourse of Turbine Hall not only reveals the dominant political, financial, and social order of the space but also transforms the museum albeit temporarily into a truly public space of democracy.

Subject Keywords

Architecture, Site-specific art, Activist performance art, İnstitutional critique, Museum space, Liberate tate

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/36433
http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/articles/metujfa2019208.pdf

Journal

ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi

DOI

https://doi.org/10.4305/metu.jfa.2019.2.8

Collections

Department of Architecture, Article

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Designing the Unity: Türk Grup Espas and Architecture in Postwar Turkey Yavuz, Ezgi (Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, 2015-12-15) Türk Grup Espas Türkiye’de sanat ve mimarlık birlikteliğini ve işbirliğini destekleyen önemli bir girişim olmuştur. 1955’te üç sanatçı ve bir mimar ile kurulan grup, İkinci Dünya Savaşı sonrası dönemde öne çıkan kolektif algı ile üretimi benimsemiştir. Türkiye’de sanat ve mimarlık işbirliğinin en somut örneği olan Türk Grup Espas, sentez düşüncesi üzerine oluşturduğu söylemini ifade etmiş, konunun kapsamını ve mantığını ele alan kendi tanımını da oluşturmuştur . Bu anlamda grup, sanat ve mimarlık için ideal...
The Gezi Protests: Between Carnivalesque and Prefiguration Salman, Sinan; Ertuğrul, Kürşad; Department of Political Science and Public Administration (2022-9-26) This study analyzes the protest forms and practices of social movements built on the practice of occupying public spaces between 2011 and 2013 in the backdrop of the snowballing protest wave that began in 2008. It first traces the concept of carnival in the Bakhtinian perspective to understand how carnivalesque forms in squares revitalize everyday life in festival form and transform it into an opposition dynamic. Second, it examines the prefigurative practices in the squares to explore how prefiguration pro...
Mural as public art in urban fabric: An attempt to link configurational approach to perceptual morphology Demir Türközü, Cansu; Çalışkan, Olgu (2021-12-01) The intrinsic relationship between art and the public has changed as public art has greater visibility in contemporary urban space. Especially following the growing interest in placemaking in spatial planning and design, many cities in different countries tend to experience an unprecedented transformation of urban space displaying various modes of artistic performances open for the public. As a visual art, the mural could be considered one of the leading creative activities in the cities' public domain. The...
Place and protest: the “occupy gezi movement” in Ankara Şensönmez, Gökhan; Bodirsky, Katharina; Department of Sociology (2016) This thesis analyzes the occupy movement within the example of Gezi in terms of place and protest. The term occupy movement indicats a contradictory couple of static and dynamic strategies. While the literature attends this new wave of mobilizations through the lens of 'occupy' alone, the essential component 'movement' is neglected. Accordingly, the existing works on Gezi mainly study Gezi Park that overshadows the experiences of a movement spread to nation-scale. To be able to shed light to these experienc...
Architectural Literary Analysis: Reading “The Death of the Street” through Ballard’s Literature and Trancik’s “Lost Space” Tuna Ultav, Zeynep; Çağlar, T. Nur; Durmaz Drinkwater, S. Bahar (Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, 2015-12-15) Bu çalışmanın temel amacı, mimarlık ve edebiyat arasındaki olası ilişkinin boyutlarını ortaya çıkarmak ve mimarlık eğitimi, araştırmaları, uygulaması ve diğer disiplinler için potansiyel yararlarını örnekleyerek tartışmaktır. Çalışmanın yöntemi, yazınsal metinlerdeki mekânsal kurgu tasvirleri ve ipuçlarından yola çıkıp çeşitli mimari konuların “yazınsal çözümlemesi” üzerine kurulmuştur. Bu kapsamda, çalışma, örneklem olarak bilim kurgu yazarı Jim Graham Ballard’ın High Rise ve Concrete Island adlı iki roman...

Citation Formats

E. Pinar, “Site-Specific Protest: Liberate Tate’s Performances At Tate Modern,” ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 29–44, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/36433.