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: David Medalla | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

Born in the Philippines and based in Britain since the Sixties, with stints in New York and Paris, artist David Medalla describes himself as a citizen of the world. His work does not come from one single cultural perspective but draws from his const

 TateShots: Lynda Benglis | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 171

American artist Lynda Benglis is best known for her wax paintings, poured latex sculptures and for posing naked with a giant dildo in Art Forum magazine to advertise a show. Benglis looks back over her long career in this interview with TateShots.

 TateShots: David Salle | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 273

‘A good painting’, says American artist David Salle, ‘has immediate impact, but rewards a longer viewing time’.

 TateShots: Alex Katz | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 279

Alex Katz shows us around his New York studio, and talks about his new exhibition at Tate St Ives.

 TateShots: Christo | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 179

Christo and Jeanne-Claude's public interventions have included wrapping two-and-a-half kilometres of coast and cliffs up to 26 metres high in Little Bay, Sydney, and covering the Reichstag in Berlin with 100,000 m2 of fireproof polypropylene fabric.

 TateShots: Francesco Clemente | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 278

The artist Francesco Clemente gives TateShots a tour of his studios in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

 TateShots: Bruce Davidson's Subway | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 228

In the 1980s the Subway in New York was poorly run, poorly lit and considered dangerous.

 TateShots: Kusama's Obliteration Room | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 238

Yayoi Kusama's interactive Obliteration Room begins as an entirely white space, furnished as a monochrome living room, which people are then invited to 'obliterate' with multi-coloured stickers. a few weeks the room is transformed

 TateShots: Mat Collishaw studio visit | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 209

How does an artist begin, and what form does inspiration take? Mat Collishaw lets us into his studio as his latest artworks - mutant, syphilitic flowers, and a depiction of hell, rendered as a 3D zoetrope - start to take shape.

 TateShots: Francesco Clemente on Alighiero Boetti | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 260

In this interview for TateShots, Clemente remembers his great friend and artistic mentor Boetti

 TateShots: Michael Landy | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 324

How Michael Landy made a day job out of drawing

 TateShots: Patrick Keiller | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 268

Patrick Keiller is best known for his series of film essays, London 1994, Robinson in Space 1997, and Robinson in Ruins 2010, in which a fictional, unseen scholar Robinson undertakes exploratory journeys around England.

 TateShots: Terayama | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 270

Japanese artist Shuji Terayama's works range in media from radio drama, experimental television, underground (Angura) theatre and countercultural critique to Japanese New Wave and expanded cinema

 TateShots: Laibach, Monumental Retro-Avant-Garde | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 326

Slovenian music and cross-media group Laibach – describing themselves as ‘engineers of human souls’ – present a multi-media show recreating moments key from their history in the early 1980s to today.This film shows highlights of Laibach's sell out

 TateShots: Frank Bowling | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 215

Frank Bowling studied at the Royal College of Art with David Hockney and Derek Boshier.

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