![]() ![]() The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". ![]() The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. The opening programme is supported by The Tanks Supporters Group.” (Tate press release) A major new commission and recent acquisitions will go on display for the first time and, for ten days during the festival, the programme will be created by and for young people. The festival will allow audiences to explore new developments in art practice and learning, see bold new work being developed by artists, and engage more deeply with the programme. The Tanks are raw, industrial spaces which provide an anchor and home for the live art and film programmes which have previously been presented in diverse spaces around Tate Modern. “The Tanks will be launched with a fifteen-week festival from 18 July to 28 October 2012 celebrating performance and installation art and the historical works that have shaped it. That demonstrated the rich potential of the world’s first gallery spaces dedicated to performance and installation” (from the Chairman’s Foreword in the Tate Annual Report 2012/13) The opening event in the Tanks was a live performance of the classic work Fase by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, one of the leading contemporary choreographers. ![]() They remind us of Bankside’s past as a power station, and they are the foundations for the new Tate Modern which is being developed above them. They connect old with new, a space for new kinds of art and new kinds of experience. “On 16 July 2012, the Tanks opened at Tate Modern. ![]()
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