This upcoming bank holiday weekend you can get involved in some of the best free stuff around. The Tate Modern is the core host of UBS Openings: The Long Weekend, where people can watch, hear, experience and take part in all sorts of arty inspired crazy cool ideas.
Here are some of the cool things happening:
Bodyspacemotionthings Friday 22nd - Monday 25th: Created by Artist Robert Morris Bodyspacemotionthings inspires people to climb, balance, crawl and roll on a series of installations around the Tate. Temporally taking over the Turbine Hall, there will be beams, ramps, platforms, rollers and tunnels for anyone to come along and....play with.
Newspaper Sphere Saturday 23rd @ 17:00: This one is a little more out there, but sounds soooo cool. Artist Michelangelo Pistoletto will be rolling a huge ball of Newspaper, with extracts from newspapers around the world, from the Tate Modern, across Millennium Bridge and to points all around London. The ball will finally make its way back to the Tate on boat! We have no idea of the route, or even method of transport will symbolise anything. The fact it is being paraded around the streets could mean it is being exposed to the public, and driven by the people, but the ball itself is to symbolise todays' political and social conditions. 3 thumbs up Michel.
1000 Monday 25th @ 17:00: Did we say the last one was out there? Well, wait till you read this. 1000 will be capping off the whole event on Monday. Conceived by artist Paola Pivi, 1000 is the idea that 1000 people will all scream together in unison on the mezzanine bridge. ooooooo-k. Paola Pivi does have a history of being "creative". One of her most recent works I wish I am fish was where she sent an airplane into the sky above New Zealand, where it floated around the sky for 3 hours. The best part though is that the passengers were...fish. She had sent 84 goldfish (in bowls of course!) into the sky, in an airplane, all in individual seats for...we don't know. 1000 should be interesting.
