It's 2053. All of the artworks in Tate Liverpool's special exhibition An Imagined Museum have vanished and are replaced by a 'living museum', that is, an army of people assembled to preserve the memory of the artworks that were once on display. This is the extraordinary conclusion of Tate Liverpool's special exhibition, An Imagined Museum: works from the Centre Pompidou, Tate and MMK collections, which recreates the aura of the artefacts now gone through a wide variety of performances including dance, song and spoken word.
2053: A Living Museum, also featuring Romanian artistsAlexandra Pirici, Manuel Pelmuş, Rolando Matsangosand Mihai Mihalcea, draws on Ray Bradbury's book, Fahrenheit 451 (1953), where the characters become a living library of banned books to preserve their content for future generations.
Starting at 10.00 on Saturday 20 February 2016, after the exhibition An Imagined Museum has been closed for four days, each of the vanished artworks will be 'remembered' by a special performance involving artists alongside a host of curators, art historians, artists, students, community groups and members of the public.
The project is organised by Tate Liverpool Museum and supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, Institut Français du Royaume Uni, the German Federal Foreign Office, Goethe-Institut London and the Romanian Cultural Institute in London.
When: Sat & Sun, 20 & 21 February 2016, 10am-5pmWhere: Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool Waterfront, L3 4BBFree entry. No booking required.
