What's On - November.

Works to Know by Heart: An Imagined Museum.

What is it?

Featuring works from Tate Liverpool, Centre Pompidou, Tate and MMK, these three major European art musesums are bringing together over 60 major works, from post 1945. The exhibiton will include works from artists such as  Marcel Duchamp, Claes Oldenburg, Bridget Riley, Dorothea Tanning, Andy Warhol, Rachel Whiteread. 

The exhibiton invites  the audience into a fictional scenario in which the works within the exhibiton will be destroyed and cease to exist forever. Works to know by heart asks vitsitors to memories the works they believe should be saved by memorising them in order to secure their future preservation.

The idea behind the exhibition is based on a novel by  Ray Bradbury  called Fahrenheit 451 which is set in a modern society where all literature is banned and the only way to preserve them is to learn them by heart.

What to expect?

The exhibition will come to an end with an exciting final weekend. All of the artworks will ‘disappear’, leaving the gallery to be replaced by members of the public who will recreate the missing art works to become a ‘living museum’. 

Expect to enjoy an array of multi-art form, live performances. Works to Know by Heart, encourages the audiences to take an active role in the exhibition and to form a personal relationship with the artworks on display in order to become the 'living museum'.

When?

20 November 2015 – 14 February 2016


Where?

Tate Liverpool

How to get there?

From leeds, train or coach, then either a bus/taxi/walk to albert dock.