{"id":2415,"date":"2017-04-12T17:20:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T16:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canterburypolitics.wordpress.com\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2018-09-10T14:20:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T13:20:59","slug":"tate-exchange-fairground-diaries-tuesday-and-wednesday-11-12-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/2017\/04\/12\/tate-exchange-fairground-diaries-tuesday-and-wednesday-11-12-april\/","title":{"rendered":"TATE Exchange: Fairground Diaries – Tuesday and Wednesday (11 & 12 April)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/em>The Politics and International Relations programme at Canterbury Christ Church University has collaborated with local organisations and schoolchildren to curate and present a live art intervention held at the Tate Modern: “Waste Not, Want Not”<\/a>.\u00a0Curated as part of the Tate Exchange programme, the intervention will be live from Wednesday 12 April\u00a0until Saturday 15 April 2017. Dr David Bates, director of Politics & IR, reports from the scene of the ‘Fairground’:<\/p>\n

“We finished installing \u2018Waste Not Want Not\u2019 into floor 5 of the Switch House, at Tate Modern at 6pm on Tuesday. We got back to Canterbury at 9pm, then back to London for a 10am start.<\/em><\/p>\n

When the doors opened, the people started to flood in. As the saying goes \u2018build it and they will come\u2019!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

All the work in our fairground looks fantastic.<\/em><\/p>\n

Robert \u2013 a talented Slovakian student from Astor College in Dover – has produced a work called \u2018The Booth\u2019. Visitors to the exchange seem most curious to see what is inside!<\/em><\/p>\n

Reece also from Astor college has completed his \u2018House of Horrors\u2019. For some reason, members of the public are using this to take \u2018selfies\u2019. I have no idea why!<\/em><\/p>\n

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The work by Valley\u2019s Kids \u2013 all the way from the Rhonda Valley in Wales \u2013 is wonderful. (See their \u2018Merry-go-round of Arts and Ideas\u2019.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Our colleagues from People United are enjoying lots of success with their work \u2018For Me For You\u2019, which explores the idea of reciprocal altruism.<\/em><\/p>\n

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And the work of the artist Holly McKenzie encourages you to \u2018Smash the Patriarchy\u2019!<\/em><\/p>\n

Finally, we must note that Susannah Campbell and Lewis Bloodworth, two of our own Politics and international Relations students from CCCU, were part of the live art piece \u2018Test Your Mental Strength\u2019, a two hour discussion of concerns of a theoretical nature. Joining with visitors to Tate, we debated such questions as: \u2018Democracy: Is it Worth It?\u2019 \u2018You read all em books, but you don\u2019t know what\u2019s living!\u2019; \u2018Survival of the unfit\u2019; \u2018gender and being a woman\u2019; \u2018the industry of love\u2019; \u2018Is there a world beyond capitalism?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

I encourage everyone to roll up to take exchange \u2013 open until 6pm on Saturday.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Find out more here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/whats-on\/tate-modern\/workshop\/tate-exchange\/fairground<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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