21 proposals for the Turbine Hall
Softday have composed and are performing a live sound work layered with extracts from the book 21 proposals for the Turbine Hall recorded by 21 different voices.
Performance in the Crawford Gallery, Cork.
Photo courtesy of Judy Kravis
Performance in the Crawford Gallery, Cork.
Photo courtesy of Judy Kravis
Background to the book launch
The book was originally launched at The Small Press Book Fair, London 2011, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Art Book Fair, Dublin, 2011.
It will now be launched twice more, at Ormston House, Limerick on 29th February 2012, and The Crawford Gallery, Cork, 10th March 2012, including a live sound work by Softday, layered with extracts from the book recorded by 21 different voices.
Peter Morgan and Judy Kravis have worked collaboratively since the inception of Road Books in 1992. Their books are in the collections of Tate Britain, the V&A, Chelsea College, Royal College and the Slade, among others.
48pp 175 x 223mm, thread sewn, french flaps, 22 black and white illustrations.
Paperback ISBN 978-0-9519358-5-9
Published November 2011. Edition of 501. €10
Available from the website, www.roadbooks.ie Foyles & bookartbookshop, London, Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam, The Glucksman Gallery, The Crawford Gallery, Cork
Background of the book
The Tate invites. You do not send in proposals. To write a proposal for the Turbine Hall is to dream seriously. Contributors work with abstractions like truth and fear as well as with the physicality and absurdity of the world we live in. The Turbine Hall is occupied by cars or carcasses, sharks or poltergeists, by energies of the mind. Contributors were invited, or selected from responses to an online art site, and then worked in collaboration with the editors. Some proposals could be realised, others deliberately go beyond physical or practical realisation. The proposals have a rhythm: assertive, tentative, confessional, triumphal, poetic, manic.