From June 15-18 my interactive performance Three Tables is at Tate Exchange. It’s running from mid-day onwards and continues until the building closes each day. Do please stop by to Level 5, Blavatnik Building at Tate Modern and join in the work.
Three Tables is a long interactive work in which three performers seated in the open space of Tate Exchange, draw members of the public into conversations and exchanges on topics that range from work and money to ephemeral things and friendship, family and love. It’s a simple but complicated piece, presented this time by performers Season Butler, Deborah Pearson and Souheil Sleiman (who steps into the shoes of Harun Morrison). I’m really happy that it’s back and that more people will get a chance to take part.
We first presented Three Tables last year, as part of the opening of Tate Exchange and it worked really well – a low key format that ebbed and flowed to create some really intense conversations and encounters between strangers. The piece depends on the performers of course, who are really adept and open in their approach, but it’s also very reliant on and open to visitors to the gallery taking up the invitation of the piece to conversation and discussion.
In the same time period Tate are also re-presenting my piece Further Provocations, manifested by Andrew Stevenson, in which a series of texts are repeatedly painted, painted out and then repainted on the longest wall in the Exchange space.
Hope to see you at Tate over the days.
Schedule for Three Tables
15 June 2017 at 12.00–18.00
16 June 2017 at 12.00–18.00
17 June 2017 at 12.00–18.00
18 June 2017 at 12.00–18.00