This event will expand on themes of desire, culture and history, celebrating Isaac Julien’s first UK retrospective and his work in queer cinema.
This Late will explore how Julien built worlds by weaving through time and space to depict unheard stories.
Expect an evening of music, performance and workshops. Reflect on themes of theatre, movement, and distortion of spaces.
This programme has been co-curated by Tate Collective Producers Tia and Ezri.
Poetry Workshop with Remi Graves
Location: Manton Studio
Time: 18:15 – 19:00, 19:15 – 20:00, 20:15 – 21:00
Come join poet Remi Graves for a fun evening of experimentation and self-discovery. Inspired by Isaac Julien's multi-screen explorations of desire, beauty and history, the workshop will invite participants to engage with their own desires in new ways. What have you wanted for the longest time? Where does desire live in our memories? How might we reframe our wants, see them in a new light, toss them into a new landscape? Using free writes, collaborative improvisation and visual prompts, this workshop will spark new poem ideas in a relaxed environment. No experience necessary, come with an open mind!
*Each time slot requires a free ticket, which will be available to collect at the ticket desk by the Manton entrance at 18:00.
Sonic Sound Scape by Joshua Woolford
Location: Gallery 24
Time: 20:00 – 20:30
Joshua Woolford will be sharing a new ambient and immersive soundscape, reflecting on Isaac Julien's exhibition What Freedom Is To Me as well as the abstract paintings of Aubrey Williams in Gallery 24. Through layering, repetition and distortion, Woolford builds and transforms their soundscape over time, forming a rhythmic collage of found video footage, audio samples, experimental electronic sound and spoken word. You are invited to confront and engage with a fragmented world by injecting open questions, personal experiences, references to popular music and thoughts around ongoing global crises throughout the performance.
RE-IMAGINING the POETICS of PERSON AND PLACE THROUGH THE MOVING IMAGE with Pacheanne Anderson
Location: Grand Saloon
Time: 18:45 – 19:45
Join Pacheanne Anderson, Rhea Storr and Joshua Woolford for a panel disscussion. This talk will discuss the ways in which moving image can be used structurally to re-imagine people, places and ideas. The talk will centre the methods practised by artists to build new worlds through complex filmic composition. With reference to the work of Isaac Julien and the artists, we will be discussing how sound, image composition, the art of film-collage and editing can be experimented to become a vessel of timelessness, thought, memory and feeling.
*This talk requires a free ticket, which will be available to collect at the ticket desk by the Manton entrance at 18:00.
Performance with James Jordan Johnson
Location: Outside Courtyard
Time: 18:00 – 20:30
James Jordan Johnson will carry out a series of actions in the courtyard area over a slow and durational period of time.
Between the Threads by Spike Silverton and Ese Onojeruo
Location: North Duveens
Time: 18:00 – 22:00
This multimedia installation will examine lace production and its form as a means of exploring British history. It will be a reflection on the craft and the material that previously existed as an indicator of wealth and status. This nonlinear work oscillates between cycles of history, labour and power. It will also explore how lace is reincorporated into culture as a sign of emancipation.
Laarin Aaye by Daniel Oduntan
Location: Clore Centre
Time: 19:15 – 19:45, 20:15 – 20:45 and 21:15 – 21:45
Laarin Aaye [Between Space] is an audio-visual play, written and directed by artist and designer Daniel Oduntan. Folade, played by interdisciplinary artist Chisara Agor, is a Nigerian night shift worker. Folade is coming to terms with the price of migration, history and cultural duality – not only for herself but also for her British-born daughter. Featuring live video compositions by Daniel, the performance presents the surroundings and circumstances Folade is trying to exist in and move through. She has to navigate through the distance between what was then and what could be, The Between Space.
Film Screenings
Location: Clore Auditorium
Time: 18:00 – 21:30
This film programme has been curated by Assistant Curator Ese Onojeruo and will expand on Isaac Julien's exploration of architecture, and marginal spaces as spaces of resistance.
Times:
18:20 – 18:38 Through a Shimmering Prism, We Made a Way, Rhea Storr, 2021
18:38 – 18.51 Jus Soli, Michael.
18:51 - 19:14 the destructors, Imran Perretta 2019
19:14 - 19:37 the destructors, Imran Perretta 2019
19:37 – 19:51 Jus Soli, Michael.
19:51 – 20.09 Through a Shimmering Prism, We Made a Way, Rhea Storr, 2021
20:20 – 21:46 Under Your Nose The Story of the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre, Veronica McKenzie, 2014
the destructors, Imran Perretta 2019
the destructors is shot on location in Tower Hamlets, East London. Reflecting on Perretta’s experience as a young man of Bangladeshi heritage, the work reconsiders the figure of alienated male youth to explore the complexities of ‘coming of age’ for young Muslim men living in the UK.
Jus Soli, Michael.
JUS SOLI opens up a discourse on the Black British experience, interrupting the emotional transition between generations and questioning what it means to be British.
JUS SOLI was created by artist film collective somebody nobody.
Through a Shimmering Prism, We Made a Way, Rhea Storr, 2021
Three sisters move through public/political space – a square, bridge, garden and hill – in this exploration of Black diaspora. Taking as its starting point empty carnival and parade routes in London, United Kingdom and Nassau, Bahamas, the film reflects on progress, the architectural histories of colonialism, and the female body in public space. Glass, mirror and stone are imaged in Super 8mm film, where texture and surface are used as a strategic way of moving through these four spaces.
Under Your Nose The Story of the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre, Veronica McKenzie, 2014
40 years ago, a group of activists came together with one aim: to open a centre for the black LGBTQ+ community. Against the backdrop of 1980s politics, the rise of Thatcherism, and the AIDS epidemic, they started on the path. Drawing on archival materials, Under Your Nose is a feature documentary dedicated to those trailblazers who, facing hostility and often personal danger, offered hope and a lifeline to many others. Their legacy is still apparent today.
Reprezent Radio
Location: Gallery 8
18:00 - 19:00: Blue Canariñho
Blue Canariñho is a visual/audio artist based in London, focusing on the history and aesthetics of the Endz, mixing in the Spanish/Brazilian flavours he was surrounded by as a child. In 2020 he birthed the Love In The Endz radio show on the legendary Reprezent Radio, focusing on giving a voice to underrepresented scenes from around the world and sharing them with the London landscape.
19:00 - 20:00: Usher Lavelle
Usher Lavelle is a producer, broadcaster and DJ working in the music industry. The ‘From Distance’ EP is his latest release and his DJ sets are set to be a journey through a wide range of influences and sounds that push things forward.
20:00 – 21:30: RALPH x Barney Kass
Sonically, RALPH will explore the darker spectrum of electronica, with an emphasis on low-end, sample-laden tracks, epitomising the melting pot of cultures that London represents and creating an evocative journey through genre and tone alike.
Visually, Barney will invite people not only to witness art but actively participate in it. At its core, this work is an exploration of inclusion and acceptance to foster a sense of unity between the performer and audience, making all an integral part of the experience. Whilst playfully challenging cultural norms and human connections, it redefines the boundaries of desire and perception. Witness, participate, and transcend as you delve into a world of artistic co-creation.
Please note there will a live feed in this performance.
Reprezent Radio
Location: Djanogoly Café
Time: 18:00 – 21:00
Join Reprezent Radio for a DJ set in the Djanogoly Café.
Network and Chill: Get connected with Creative Lives in Progress
Location: Turner Galleries
Time: 18:30 – 20:30
Networking is a term that can make many of us shudder: bad jokes, name badges, forced or awkward conversation… but it doesn’t have to be this way!
Join creative careers resource Creative Lives in Progress for an interactive workshop on all things creative careers and making connections.
The team will talk you through how Creative Lives can help support you on your career journey, before sharing some top tips on networking and meeting new connections – as well as making the most of existing ones.
Come on down to chat with the team, learn more about the industry and get connected with fellow creatives.
Future Artefacts
Location: Clore Studio
Time: 18:00 – 21:30
Join ⓜ.ⓤ.ⓓ @ Sydenham Garden in making artefacts that can hold our memories and tell our stories.
We can encase our personal histories, the cultures that sculpted us, the identities we claimed for ourselves, and the futures yet to be manifested using discarded materials – wild clay, wire, letters, stones, old packaging.
Show and Share: Isaac Julien
Location: Library and Archive Reading Rooms
Time: 18:00 – 20:00
For August’s Late at Tate Britain, Tate's Library and Archive team are putting on a Show and Share displaying highlights from their vast collections relating to Isaac Julien and the themes present in his artistic practice, from queer desire to history and displacement. A range of publications, videos, slides and archival material will explore the work of Julien, the Sankofa Film and Video Collective, and other artists connected to his career from the 1980s to date.
Show and Share invites visitors to explore highlights from the Library and Archive collections. Previous highlights have included letters, sketchbooks, artists’ books, zines, catalogues, ephemera, photographs, and other special collections.
Each display is curated to a specific theme or collection and includes a guided talk from the Library and Archive team, as well as occasional guest talks and performances. Show and Share displays provide a unique viewing and handling experience highlighting art and ideas found in the Library and Archive collections.
10 Minute Talks
Location: Throughout the building
Time: Various times
Staff and volunteers from across Tate share their personal insights into works from the collection.
Quiet Space
Location: Millbank Studio
Time: 18:00 – 22:00
Do you need a room to take a break from the many activations happening in the building, and the rest of the world? We invite you to reset your senses and recharge in this quiet, access-friendly and wellness-inspired room. In this space you will find something to activate each one of your senses and have an array of activities to distract your mind.
