Almost Avant-Garde. Part of the series BMW Tate Live: Performance Room
With a DJ mixing Baroque music and Chinese voices, 2-D reproductions of artworks from the Tate collection and a spinning mirror ball, Almost Avant-Garde has been created especially for BMW Tate Live Performance Room. The recorded Chinese voices are from interviews Liu Ding conducted with Chinese artists and art critics active in the 1990s in which they describe their work, experiences, expectations and understanding of art. Liu Ding uses the work to reflect on the Chinese art community's aspirations to be modern and contemporary. Translations will be projected onto the walls of the Performance Room. Thursday 16 May 2013, 20.00.