In visiting the Tate Modern for the Edvard Munch exhibition, I chanced fortuitously upon a very different use of the gallery’s space.
Berlin-based artist Tino Sehgal was commissioned by the Tate to utilise the Turbine Hall for a work entitled ‘These Associations’ which runs until October 28th, 2012.
The piece consists of what the gallery describe as “an assembly of participants”; around 70 men and women who work four-hour shifts.
They are paid a modest sum of between £8 and £9 per hour so I think it’s safe to say that the primary motivation isn’t financial.
Sehgal calls this work a ‘constructed situation’ rather than adopting the more pretentious and off-putting term of ‘performance art’.
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