![]() ![]() The only problem was that there was nowhere near enough people moving around to reveal the image, and even if there were sufficient numbers on the tiles, they’d obscure the image anyway. She calls this approach Arte Útil (useful art), in which people engage as users rather than spectators. Often, she sets out to cause change through her work. Her work spans performance, events, action, film, installation, sculpture, writing and teaching alongside site-specific works. Her main concerns are institutional power, borders and migration. Tania Bruguera engages with ‘the role of emotions in politics’. ![]() ![]() In a small room nearby, an organic compound in the air induces tears and provokes what the artist describes as ‘forced empathy’. Meanwhile, a low-frequency sound fills the space with an unsettling energy. The idea of the installation is that if enough people work together to heat up the floor with their bodies, an image of a Syrian refugee is revealed across the floor.īy using your body heat and working together with other visitors, you can reveal a hidden portrait of Yousef, a young man who left Syria to come to London. You’re instructed to take off your shoes before you can strut on to the heat sensitive area, but then you can make merry watching your footprints (and other body parts) leave a slowly fading impression in white. Most of the hall is covered in glossy black tiles that don’t do anything, but at the far end there is a square covered in an opaque material that interacts with body heat. There’s a cracking selection of installations and exhibitions that you can currently see for free in the Tate Modern on Bankside.Ĭreated by Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera, the main installation in the Turbine Hall doesn’t do a very good job of getting its message across, but still a lot of fun to interact with. ![]()
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