Thursday, 4 October 2012
Tate Modern: Tino Sehgal; These Associations
"The work of the British-born German artist Tino Sehgal exists solely as a set of choreographed gestures and spoken instructions acted out by performers in gallery settings", explains Arthur Lubow for Tate etc, making the work immaterial as such. Very much in the category, if any, of relational aesthetics, Sehgal's piece for the unilever series in the turbine hall is at times like a dance that represents scientific molecule movement. It is an epitome of relational art, inviting the spectators to participate by way of conversation with the performers and also by simply being in the space alongside them as they circulate rapidly. There is no short term time frame for this work, you could stay all day if you wanted to, observing the movements and interpreting them any which way you wanted, this is what makes the work interesting for me, I value it on its accessibility.