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Turner Prize 2019: Opening Weekend
Join us on the opening weekend of Turner Prize 2019 for one-off performances from some of this year's nominees, as well as a special takeover from the team behind Margate NOW in our Foyle Rooms.
Saturday 28 September:
Turner Prize 2019 exhibition
10am – 6pm
One of the best known prizes for visual arts in the world, Turner Prize 2019 is coming to Turner Contemporary in Margate.
Performance from Oscar Murillo
Clore Gallery – 13:30pm
Oscar Murillo presents readings of the 1933 novela Parque Industrial: romance proletario (Industrial Park: a proletarian novel), by Patrícia Galvão, a Brazilian Modernist writer and dissident under the Vargas dictatorship. Set in the working-class Brás district of 1920s Sao Paulo, the novela centres on intersecting stories of factory labourers, many of them female, in industries such as clothing and textiles. Narrated by a succession of characters with no central protagonist, Parque Industrial addresses issues of poverty, racial prejudice, exploitation – including gendered and sexual exploitation – and collective political organising. The book, which will be read aloud in its entirety during the Turner Prize exhibition, invites further contemplation of themes raised by Murillo’s work collective conscience, such as the fragmentary effects of labour and the possibilities (or limitations) of collectivity.
Performances from Helen Cammock
South Gallery – 4pm & 5pm, drop in
Helen Cammock will perform two solo spoken work and sung performances which expand on themes in both her Turner Prize 2019 exhibition and practice. Cammock uses texts from a range of historical and contemporary sources – from blues to folk song and from political tract to Shakespeare and are woven together using Cammock’s own words.
Duration 5-15 mins.
Yuri Suzuki’s The Welcome Chorus
South Terrace – 10am – 6pm
The Welcome Chorus brings together sound, sculpture and artificial intelligence (AI) in a new interactive outdoor installation. Twelve horns, each representing a district of Kent, will continually sing lyrics which are generated live by a uniquely trained, site-specific piece of AI software. Symbolically, the sculptural forms reference the origin of the word ‘Kent’; thought to derive from the word ‘kanto’, meaning horn or hook.
Margate NOW Takeover
Foyle Rooms – 10am – 6pm
Margate NOW, an ambitious and dynamic festival of art, events and performances will be taking over our Foyle Rooms.
Sunday 29 September:
Turner Prize 2019 exhibition
10am – 6pm
One of the best known prizes for visual arts in the world, Turner Prize 2019 is coming to Turner Contemporary in Margate.
Yuri Suzuki’s The Welcome Chorus
South Terrace – 10am – 6pm
The Welcome Chorus brings together sound, sculpture and artificial intelligence (AI) in a new interactive outdoor installation. Twelve horns, each representing a district of Kent, will continually sing lyrics which are generated live by a uniquely trained, site-specific piece of AI software. Symbolically, the sculptural forms reference the origin of the word ‘Kent’; thought to derive from the word ‘kanto’, meaning horn or hook.
Margate NOW Takeover
Foyle Rooms – 10am – 6pm
Margate NOW, an ambitious and dynamic festival of art, events and performances will be taking over our Foyle Rooms.