After the FBI interrogated Reality Winner, a 25-year-old former Air Force linguist, the transcript of the encounter ignited director Tina Satter’s theatrical imagination. Satter’s company Half Straddle replicates, word by word, the verbal dance between the whip-smart Winner and reality-twisting agents, demonstrating how military interrogation tactics, toxic masculinity, and systemic marginalization resulted in her conviction […]

Listen and watch an in-depth audio description of Cildo Meireles’s Babel. Hear a detailed description of the artwork, descriptions of the colours, sounds and forms in the artwork, and how the artist made the work. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl source

Meet Anne Hardy, an artist who constructs immersive environments. ‘The main thing about these works is the feeling of being in them’ says Hardy. The artist builds sentient spaces using found objects and materials, as well as sound recordings from the city. ‘I’m not interested in things that display their value. It’s about how things […]

Fons Americanus is a 13-metre tall working fountain inspired by the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, London. Created by artist Kara Walker for the 2019 Hyundai Commission, it is one of the most ambitious installations in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall to date. Rather than a celebration of the British Empire, Walker’s fountain explores […]

“How do we deal with abandonment, ruin, decay? How do we start to imagine ourselves as deeper caretakers of the things that exist in the world?” —Theaster Gates Theaster Gates’s (US, b. 1973) multifaceted practice includes sculpture, installation, performance, and architectural interventions. An important aspect of his work entails reclaiming and revitalizing abandoned buildings in […]

Experience the daring ideas of diverse artists inventing new work that responds to the now. Intensity, surprise, urgency, humanity, complexity, provocation, joy—these subjects bind the experiences awaiting you in the Walker’s 2019–2020 Performing Arts season. source