TANKS of the Tate Modern, London

Next July 16 will see the official presentation to the press of Tate Modern’s project that will be exhibiting “live art”. Performances, installations, movies and experimental video-art will have their space at Tanks, which some time ago were warehouses and today become galleries “within the Museum”, exclusively dedicated to the most contemporary, emerging art.

From July 18 to October 28, nearly 40 international artists from several generations, famous and not so promoted, are going to make up a fifteen-week Festival that will kick off the program of Tanks, a concept related to the renovation of Tate Modern. The appellative used to define the project marks the potential of handpicked spaces: huge industrial warehouses that can host demanding proposals within the exhibition concept, which require more flexible places instead of the solid and not so transformable walls of a museum.

Is this an artwork?, many might ask when getting involved with the projects. The Festival has set as main objective the fact of getting a vast public closer to these relatively new art styles, which many times are not so easy to categorize for an inexperienced public, accustomed to more classic expressions such as painting and sculpture. That’s why the intention is connecting spectators with in progress works, putting made-to-order works on the map, and linking visitors to the creation as such.

Tanks launching program is supported by The Tanks Supporters Group, and joins 2012 London Festival, and the international atmosphere generated by the Olympic Games.