TateShots show

TateShots

Summary: Welcome to TateShots, our weekly programme for art junkies everywhere. TateShots presents a selection of short videos, with a focus on modern and contemporary art. Send feedback to tateshots@tate.org.uk.

Podcasts:

 TateShots: Abraham Cruzvillegas | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 310040

Sheep shit, lumps of hair, metal, wood and rope, all come together in Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas’ latest installation at Tate Modern. We caught up with him as the work was being installed to find out more.

 TateShots: Nam June Paik | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 208800

Video artist, performance artist, composer and visionary: Nam June Paik (1932-2006) was one of the most innovative artists of the 20th century.

 TateShots: Karla Black | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 244440

TateShots video presents Karla Black, one of the contemporary artists featured in Tate Britain's new Watercolour exhibition.

 TateShots: Watercolour | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 311160

TateShots is given a tour of the Watercolour exhibition at Tate Britain by curator Alison Smith.

 TateShots: Simon Starling at Tate St Ives | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 235040

Simon Starling is best known for chopping up a shed, turning it into a boat, sailing it down the Rhine, and then reassembling it as a shed, a work which helped him to win the Turner Prize in 2005.

 TateShots: John Squire on watercolour | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 319760

After hanging up his guitar, John Squire of the Stone Roses, went on to reinvent himself as an artist.

 TateShots: Ai Weiwei, one-to-one | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 240640

For Ai Wewei the act of individuals voicing opinions and communicating with one another is of great importance

 TateShots: Orozco | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 226

Creative, playful and inventive, Gabriel Orozco creates art in the streets, his apartment or wherever he is inspired.

 TateShots: Gauguin | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 351160

TateShots takes a tour of Gauguin exhibition ‘Maker of Myth‘ with curator Christine Riding during the final week of this popular show.

 TateShots: Iain Sinclair on Susan Philipsz's 'Surround Me'. | File Type: application/octet-stream | Duration: 0:05:44

The eerie silence of London's financial district at the weekend inspired Susan Philipsz's first commission in the capital. Her unaccompanied voice singing Elizabethan folk songs resonates through empty streets around the Bank of England, across postwar walkways and medieval alleyways and along the banks of the River Thames. Author Iain Sinclair takes us on a walk through the City of London to discover the songs, placing them in their historical context and explaining the significance of the locations.

 TateShots:Tony Oursler | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 259040

TateShots met Tony Oursler shortly after the opening of a solo show at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York.

 TateShots: Albert Irvin | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 234120

This week’s TateShots sees the painter Albert Irvin visit the Tate Stores facility, where the artwork in the Tate’s collection that is not currently on show is kept.

 TateShots: Interview with the artist Naum Gabo's daughter | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 200840

An interview with the artist Naum Gabo's daughter, Nina Williams

 TateShots: An interview with the artist Naum Gabo's daughter, Nina Williams. | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 200840

An interview with the artist Naum Gabo's daughter, Nina Williams.

 TateShots:Sir Peter Blake and The Museum of Everything | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 203120

TateShots caught up with Sir Peter Blake and James Brettto delve into their treasure trove of music memorabilia, Victoriantaxidermy and vintage fairground art.

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