Tate said 70% of the money for the full £215m project had been raised, with the biggest donors wishing to remain anonymous. They will become a space for installations, live and performance art, film, lectures and symposia among other things.Īfter that, 10 new floors will be built above them and linked to the present Tate Modern building. They will be known as what they were – the Oil Tanks – just as the now world-famous Turbine Hall of the former power station retained its original name. What will open next year are the two 30-metre wide and seven-metre high concrete chambers. Phase two, a building above the tankers, will now open "at the latest in 2016". Lacy has stated: 'In some sense the Crystal Quilt was successful politically, in that the work was bigger, it had more social impact in the region, but do one or two events change the way people - other than those who directly experience it - see? This raises this issue of whether you can expect art to create social change, and at what point it is no longer art'.Tate had hoped the full extension project would be completed by 2012 but officially conceded on Thursday that will not happen. The event was an attempt to consciously comment on the representation of older women in the media. The resulting performance, The Crystal Quilt, was broadcast live on television. The performance ended with the audience joining the stage, transforming the formal pattern of the quilt. Witnessed by 3,000 people the women talked and moved their hands at prearranged intervals in gestures choreographed by Sage Cowles. An accompanying soundrack by the composer Susan Stone mixed the voices of 75 of the women with personal observations interspersed with social analysis. On in the central atrium of the Crystal Court shopping mall in Minneapolis, 430 women over the age of 60 took part in this performance, dressed in black and seated at tables arranged in a pattern based on a quilt designed by painter Mirriam Shapiro. The women shared their views on growing older. I do not know what the function of it was. This is a small, round room, with a diameter of 3-4 metres, dark, womb-like.
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