Free Arts Festival at Tate Modern to celebrate 10th anniversary

To celebrate Tate Modern's 10th anniversary, the gallery will host No Soul For Sale - A Festival of Independents. For this free arts festival, Tate Modern is inviting 70 of the world's most innovative independent art spaces to take over the Turbine Hall. The festival will fill the iconic space, as well as the Starr Auditorium, with an eclectic mix of cutting-edge arts events, performances, music and film on 14-16 May 2010.
The gallery will stay open until midnight on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 May for free late night performances by artists and musicians including Cosey Fanni Tutti, DJ Spooky, Jeffrey Lewis, Kaffe Matthews, Long Meg, patten, Martin Creed and his Band, Skin Jobs, Temperatures, and Thurston Moore and Eva Prinz.
No Soul For Sale is a festival that brings together the most exciting non-profit centres, alternative institutions, artists' collectives and underground enterprises from around the world. The participants are encouraged to show whatever they choose, be it art, performance, video, publications, or simply themselves. Neither a fair nor an exhibition, No Soul For Sale is a convention of individuals and groups who devote their energies to art they believe in, beyond the limits of the market and other logistical constraints - it is a celebration of the independent forces that animate contemporary art. The festival is an exercise in coexistence: organisations exhibit alongside one another without partitions or walls, creating a pop-up art village.
No Soul For Sale - A Festival of Independents is curated by Cecilia Alemani, Maurizio Cattelan and Massimiliano Gioni, and produced by Tate Modern. The first edition of No Soul For Sale took place in June 2009 at X initiative in the former Dia Center for the Arts in New York. (MG)

For a complete schedule of events, please visit the No Soul For Sale website.
See a list of performers for the Live Acts on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 May.
Tate Modern Turbine Hall

Free, no booking necessary

Published 14.05.2010