Task 1.4: The Exhibition Space

Dominique Gonzalez's TH.2058, a form of installation art set in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern gives the illusion of a doomed city under major threat. She has created this imaginative atmosphere by installing bunk beds to portray people sheltering from an enemy or a disaster with books laid out to complete the scenery, all of which are relevant to the theme having a connection with alien invasion and war. The installation itself is set in the future, in 50 years time originally coming form both fiction and non fiction situations partly based around London under attack either by flooding, bombing or invasion. The Turbine Hall is accompanied by the sound of rain fall which illustrates the fact that the city's population is taking shelter from the never ending rain which leads to the surrounding animals sculptures such as Louise Bourgeois' s giant spider to mutate.

Susan Hiller's work that rakes place in Room 8 on the fifth floor explores the association between female adolescence and their paranormal occurrences that their in control of.A combination of supernatural fantasies and witchcraft. Her creation of Psi Girls in 1999 contains brief extracts from films that portrays young women using their paranormal powers. These extracts include Brain De Palma's The Fury 1978, Matilda 1996 and Firestarter 1984. All the clips are on a loop and each features the women levitating objects or starting fires controlled by her mind, all clips are saturated in washes of vivid colour. The soundtrack alternates between eerie silence and the rhythmic clapping and drumming of a percussive gospel choir that reaches a crescendo before reverting to static noise.

Pawel Kwiek's work (Room 4, Level 5) is a combination of conceptual and contemporary art form. "Video P" begins with a shot of Kwiek at a mixing desk, editing his own image. He focuses in on the video language by whatever contents is on that video, which makes the audience fully aware of every wipe or edit which is very alike of what he did in his previous film "Video A." The artist is in his own fixed position and it isn't always clear whether his movements are following the video's edits or vice versa.

Jonas Mekas' s display (Room 6, Level 5) is a film diary with a personal record of the New York avant-garde in the late 1960s. It draws on thousands of hours of footage shot between 1964 and 1969. It witnesses nearly everything in everyday life such as celebrations, friend, intimate family moments and public spectacles. It is titled "Diaries, Notes and Sketches" also known as Walden. A complex sense of typical events emerges as weddings and births collide with scenes from the circus and the first public performance of The Velvet Underground. Partly a documentary, autobiography and a cinematic poem, the film's animated, colourful rhythm produces a fluid and radiant sense of history.