Sound installation by Lebanese artist Tarek Atoui, the 11th Hyundai Commission, that turns the Turbine Hall into a space of gathering and exchange.
Tarek Atoui has taken over the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern with a new commission, which opened on 13 October and runs until 11 April 2027. It's the 11th Hyundai Commission to occupy the space, and it's a sound installation that asks you to listen with your whole body, not just your ears.
Atoui is a Lebanese musician, impresario and sound artist based in Paris. He studied experimental music in France, where he was drawn to composers like Iannis Xenakis and György Ligeti, and he consciously stepped away from the music industry, taking Fluxus and John Cage as his models. His installations often look like recording studios filled with handmade instruments built from scavenged materials: a tentacular wind organ, a walk-in flute, marble boulders that emit pulses, and drums that respond to footsteps. This one is no different, and it's a big, physical thing to walk through.
It was developed with musicians, instrument makers, engineers and researchers across East, West and Central Asia and Europe, drawing on ancient, transcultural instrument-making traditions alongside technological experimentation. Atoui describes the Turbine Hall as a space for gathering and exchange, and he links it to the vine-covered canopies and sheltered courtyards of his childhood across the Mediterranean.
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Entry is free, and the installation is open 10.00–18.00 Sunday to Thursday and 10.00–21.00 Fridays and Saturdays, so you've got plenty of time to wander in and out over the next few months.
