Working for the second time TENT Rotterdam en Tate Young People's Programmes together hands-on on an exchange project for young creatives. Ten young people (18 – 25 yrs.) from Rotterdam and London participate in a workshop program in which the question “Where does culture happen?” is central. Hybrid culture, representation and subcultures are some of the topics that TENT x Tate will explore. During workshops, discussions and field trips, the group meets artists from London, they investigate where culture is produced and how that relates to the exhibition spaces of TENT and Tate. In these spaces, modern and contemporary art is shown, preserved and/or produced, but art and culture in the broadest sense of the word can be found in many more places: online, on the street, in living rooms. Our cities are full of young cultural producers who work in fashion, photography, spoken word, moving image or digital culture. How does the contemporary art institution connect with the spaces and communities where culture is produced in the city? What does or does not belong in an institute for contemporary art, and why?
The group in Rotterdam consists of 5 young, ambitious creatives with different backgrounds. Lisa McCray, Fatima Jabor, Jaime Le Bleu, Cengiz Mengüç en Charmaine van Leyden will be joining five young people from London in October Angela Wereko-Anderson, Araba Banson, Losal Chiodak, Jasper Appleby-Sherring, Victoria Aquino working for a week in London with Tate Exchange as their home base, the project space on the fifth floor of the new Tate Modern building. They will be immersed in the culture of this world city, actively conducting research to see, feel, taste and intensively experience the city. They will discuss the function of institutions such as TENT and Tate in a local context and the role of art in society. Together with the members of Tate Collective, artists and makers from various disciplines, they will work on a public expression in which their findings will be presented. In November, the entire group will come together again in Rotterdam to work on the same question in TENT and in relation to the city of Rotterdam: “Where does culture happen?”
London: 15 October - 21 October
Rotterdam: 20 November - 24 November
On the photo: Charmaine van Leyden, Fatima Jabor, Cengiz Mengüç, Lisa McCray and Jaime Le Bleu
TENT x Tate is made possible by The Art of Impact and BankGiro Loterij Fonds/Stichting DOEN.