One morning in November Jude Law walked through Borough Market, just down the road from Tate Modern, and bought some fish. It was a performance for a ‘real-time movie’, in which Law and a cast of extras mingled with the market crowds, following

Performance: Mario Ybarra Jr and the art of the barbershop

Mar 27th, 2009 3m 7s

In amongst the galleries at Tate Modern you might come across a barbershop, complete with barber’s chairs, checkerboard floor and striped red and white pole at the entrance. This is Sweeney Tate (2007), an art installation named in homage to th

Performance: Did you ever want to be someone else?

Mar 27th, 2009 2m 58s

Artist Mathieu Briand and choreographer Prue Lang persuade the public to don masks and lose their inhibitions as they take part in a ‘flash-mob’ style performance for Tate Modern’s Long Weekend.UBS Openings: The Long Weekend 2007

Performance: Boxing meets art at Tate Modern

Mar 27th, 2009 3m 25s

‘The Fight’, a boxing, music and dance performance, was conceived by Panamanian-born artist, Humberto Vélez. More than 100 amateur boxers from South London boxing clubs took over Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall for a series of bouts in the ring, wit

Performance: Painting and samba - the art of Oiticica

Mar 27th, 2009 3m 26s

This performance recreates the groundbreaking work of Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica. Frustrated by the limitations of painting, Oiticica devoted himself to finding ways in which painting could be taken off the gallery walls and out into 3-dim

Performance: Matei Bejenaru shows the many faces of Romania

Mar 27th, 2009 3m 40s

Matei Bejenaru put out a call to fellow Romanian nationals, asking them to gather as a crowd outside Tate Modern to take part in a public performance. Here he introduces his own film of the event, Together (2007). Bejenaru is one of the artists

Meet the Artist: Mark Wallinger, Turner Prize nominee

Mar 27th, 2009 3m 43s

Mark Wallinger’s contribution to this year’s Turner Prize is Sleeper (2004-05), a film of a performance in which, over a period of 10 nights, he dressed in a bear suit and wandered aimlessly around an art gallery in Berlin, startling unsuspecti

Performance: A living picture by Ulla von Brandenburg

Mar 27th, 2009 5m 26s

Ulla von Brandenburg is interested in the idea of the tableau vivant, or 'living picture'. Popular in the nineteenth century, the tableau vivant was a combination of fine art and theatre, with live models carefully posed and lit in a compositio

Actions and Interruptions

May 11th, 2007 1h 15m

Actions and Interruptions is a day-long ‘exhibition’ at Tate Modern that proposes ‘performance’ to be a facet of everyday behaviour. Rather than presenting discrete, theatrical events with a clear division between performer and audience, this p

Performance: The art of everyday behaviour

Apr 30th, 2007 4m 33s

What happens when a group of performance artists go undercover at Tate Modern? Ordinary activities like standing in a queue, travelling on an escalator or listening to a gallery tour -guide takes on strange new dimensions. Artists Dora García

Performance: Fireworks by Yangjiang Group

Apr 30th, 2007 4m 40s

To mark the opening of Tate Liverpool’s exhibition of contemporary Chinese art, the Yangjiang Group staged a ‘fireworks battle’ in the docks. The work is called If I Knew the Danger Ahead I'd Have Stayed Well Clear and involved £50,000 of fire

Performance: A 'solid-light' film by Anthony McCall

Mar 29th, 2007 1m 52s

This film captures a recent presentation of Anthony McCall's ground-breaking 1973 work, Line Describing a Cone. Testing the boundaries between cinema and sculpture, the work takes the form of a projected white dot that slowly grows to fill the

Performance: Matt Mullican performs while under hypnosis

Mar 29th, 2007 4m 52s

Warning: Contains Strong LanguageAmerican artist Matt Mullican gives a performance while in a state of hypnosis. His work explores the way in which hypnosis alters behaviour and seems to expose what lies behind the façade of identity. The symbo

Performance: Highlights of Martin Creed's gig at Tate Modern

Feb 27th, 2007 5m 44s

Warning: Contains strong languageTurner Prize winner, Martin Creed takes to the stage with his inimitable band for a sell-out performance as part of UBS Openings: Saturday Live. This video shows highlights of the gig along with an interview wit

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