Rinse x Tate Exchange: Athena Papadopoulos & Jonatan Leandoer 127 February 5th at Tate Modern

Rinse announce Rinse at Tate Exchange, an all-day collaborative art and music event taking place on 5th February.

Hosted in the Tate Exchange space at Tate Modern, it's the first of Rinse’s events as a Tate Exchange Associate, and follows on from music-focused Rinse sessions in the Tate Tanks (2012) and at Tate Lates (2014). In keeping with Tate Exchange’s ethos of participation, the aim of these events is to bring together artists and musicians for a day of open collaboration and performance. For Rinse, they mark a unique opportunity to foster a dialogue between exciting rising names in both the music and contemporary art worlds.

For the event on 5th February, Rinse will hand over the Tate Exchange space to Toronto-born, London-based artist Athena Papadopoulos and Swedish musician Jonatan Leandoer 127.

Papadopoulos is a Toronto-born, London-based multidisciplinary artist, whose visually striking and often unsettling sculptural assemblages are densely layered materially but also conceptually, blending elements of fictional narrative and autobiography with popular culture and literary histories. A graduate of Goldsmiths and University of British Columbia, her work has been recently included in acclaimed exhibitions at New York's Shoot the Lobster (Nov 2016), London's David Roberts Art Foundation (Sept 2016) and Berlin's Peres Projects (June 2016).

Throughout the day, Papadopoulos will be creating a site-specific installation/performance space in real time, to which visitors are encouraged to attend and participate.

In the evening the event will culminate with a live performance within the installation environment by Stockholm-based musician and vocalist Jonatan Leandoer 127. Surfacing online in the summer of 2016, his skeletal, exploratory tracks feature a raw blend of voice, electronics and acoustic instrumentation paired with haunting and abstract DIY visuals, painting a solitary yet hopeful image. These tracks were gathered on the “Psychopath Ballads” cassette, self-released at the end of 2016. This show will mark the UK debut of the project.

Earlier in the afternoon Rinse and Barbican Guildhall will host an open discussion panel reflecting on the theme of access and considering the public's role as museum and gallery visitors. The audience are encouraged to collaborate by entering the discussion with their own thoughts and opinions

This event is programmed by Rinse and Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning, Tate Exchange Associates.

Rinse at Tate Exchange will take place at Tate Exchange at Switch House, Tate Modern from 1200 to 1800 on Sunday 5th February