{"id":2670,"date":"2018-01-26T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2018-01-26T14:01:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T14:01:15","slug":"muster-station-the-school-of-beginnings-at-tate-exchange-3rd-4th-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2018\/01\/26\/muster-station-the-school-of-beginnings-at-tate-exchange-3rd-4th-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Muster Station, The School of Beginnings at Tate Exchange, 3rd &#8211; 4th February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/01\/Muster-Station-Tate-Exchange-AC-smaller-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2672\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/01\/Muster-Station-Tate-Exchange-AC-smaller-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/01\/Muster-Station-Tate-Exchange-AC-smaller-002.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/01\/Muster-Station-Tate-Exchange-AC-smaller-002-247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SMFA Fine Art students are part of the new artists&#8217; collective\u00a0<em>Muster Station<\/em>, created in response to the University of Kent&#8217;s planned\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/academic\/smfa-changes\/\">closure<\/a>\u00a0of the School of Music and Fine Art.\u00a0As\u00a0<em>Muster Station<\/em>, they have been invited by Whitstable Biennale, to take part in the 2018 Tate Modern Exchange projects, with a theme &#8220;Production&#8221;.\u00a0 It will involve current Fine Art\u00a0BA and MA students (as well as recent Fine Art BA and MA alumni), is open to the public throughout, and free to attend.\u00a0 Through a programme of\u00a0workshops, talks, interactions and interventions <em>Muster Station<\/em>\u00a0will explore the\u00a0means by which artists produce in\u00a0response to constantly shifting conditions of space, time, audience and the ebb and flow of economic and political support.<\/p>\n<p>The venue is Tate Exchange, Tate\u00a0Modern, Bankside,\u00a0London, SE1 9TG in the\u00a0Blavatnik Building, Level 5.<\/p>\n<p>For more info see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/whats-on\/tate-modern\/tate-exchange\/workshop\/muster-station-school-beginnings\">http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/whats-on\/tate-modern\/tate-exchange\/workshop\/muster-station-school-beginnings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Opening hours<\/u>:<br \/>\nSaturday 3 &#8211; Sunday 4 February,\u00a012:00 &#8211; 18:00<br \/>\n<u>Performance<\/u>:<br \/>\nSaturday 3 February,\u00a018:00 &#8211; 20:00<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taking place intermittently throughout the weekend:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A data conservator will interpret the code of the Tate website through a translation<br \/>\nof digital coding into musical notation. The Gov.UK art-collection will also be dissected<br \/>\nand performed in sung and spoken live-burst performances.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Beyond Art Lectures,<\/em>\u00a0a &#8216;cultural telemarketing&#8217; project with artists from Latin America that promotes the idea of outsourcing art lectures by taking advantage of unfair labour conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Join in a <em>Muster Drill<\/em>, mixing yoga and semaphore signals for an invisible audience on the Thames, exploring care and communion.<\/li>\n<li>A live action role play accompanied by musicians performing their interpretations of symbol-based graphic scores made in response\u00a0to artworks in the permanent collection.<\/li>\n<li>To close the day on Saturday, a one-off performance of <em>Shears For Tears:&#8217;unrestrained screamers&#8217;, mixed into an audioscape, orchestrated by a video-chromatic score.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; SMFA Fine Art students are part of the new artists&#8217; collective\u00a0Muster Station, created in response to the University of Kent&#8217;s planned\u00a0closure\u00a0of the School of Music and Fine Art.\u00a0As\u00a0Muster Station, they have been invited by Whitstable Biennale, to take part in the 2018 Tate Modern Exchange projects, with a theme &#8220;Production&#8221;.\u00a0 It will involve current &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2018\/01\/26\/muster-station-the-school-of-beginnings-at-tate-exchange-3rd-4th-february\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Muster Station, The School of Beginnings at Tate Exchange, 3rd &#8211; 4th February<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22922,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,24626,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions\/2674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}