Tate Modern Head of Programmes joins Future Cities Forum's 'Cultural Cities' this March
Catherine Wood, Director of Programmes, Tate Modern, will be joining Future Cities Forum to discuss Tate Modern's immersive experiences which are increasing audience sizes.
Catherine Wood is The Director of Curatorial and Chief Curator of Tate Modern and leads on Tate Modern's ambitious and broad ranging artistic content including its exhibitions, Collection displays, commissions, live art and performance events and community & participatory projects. Her work is informed by Tate Modern's agreed vision and research priorities, devised in collaboration with the Hyundai Research Centre Transnational.
Previously, Catherine was instrumental as a curator in making performance and live art a core part of Tate Modern's programme, working closely with artists such as Cecilia Vicuna, Joan Jonas, Tarek Atoui, Tania Bruguera, Fujiko Nakaya, Mark Leckey, Anne Imhof, Pablo Bronstein, and Otobong Nkanga among many others, and has curated and co-curated major exhibitions such as The World as a Stage in 2007, Pop Life: Art in a Material World in 2009, A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance in 2012 and Robert Rauschenberg in 2016.
She also led on the BMW Tate Live Exhibition series in the Tanks and has also been a pioneer of curating for online audiences, initiating Tate's first live-streamed performance programme in 2012, and has played a key role in bringing live, time-based works of art into Tate's collection, including Trisha Brown's Set Reset and Lee Mingwei's Our Labyrinth.
Catherine was a trustee of Studio Voltaire between 2010 – 2022 and has been a trustee of Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, since 2022. Outside of Tate, she has curated exhibitions at Raven Row, London; KW Berlin; OGR Torino and Bozar Brussels and is author of Yvonne Rainer, The Mind is a Muscle (Afterall/MIT, 2007) and Performance in Contemporary Art (Tate, 2018). Most recently, Catherine curated an exhibition of the work of Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit, which opened at Tate Modern in 2024
Tate Modern's current exhibition, Solid Light, dedicated to the immersive works of Anthony McCall allows visitors' movements to bring artworks to life.
Beams of light projected through a thin mist create large three-dimensional forms in space, which slowly shift and change. As visitors move through these translucent sculptures of light, they create new shapes and discover their own mesmerising perspectives.
A further exhibition at Tate Modern 'Electric Dreams' open until 1st June, looks at the history of artists using digital art forums. Tate Modern says:
'From the birth of op art to the dawn of the internet age, artists found new ways to engage the senses and play with our perception. Electric Dreams celebrates the early innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art, who pioneered a new era of immersive sensory installations and automatically-generated works.
'This major exhibition brings together ground breaking works by a wide range of international artists who engaged with science, technology and material innovation. Experience the psychedelic environments they created in the 1950s and 60s, built using mathematical principles, motorised components and new industrial processes. See how radical artists embraced the birth of digital technology in the 1970s and 1980s, experimenting with machine-made art and early home computing systems.
'One of Tate Modern’s most ambitious exhibitions to date, Electric Dreams offers visitors a rare chance to experience incredible works of vintage tech art in action – a look back at how artists imagined the visual language of the future.'
Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet at Tate Modern is presented in the Eyal Ofer Galleries. In partnership with Gucci. Supported by Anthropic, with additional support from The Electric Dreams Exhibition Supporters Circle, Tate Americas Foundation, Tate International Council and Tate Patrons. Research supported by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor
Image below: courtesy of Tate Modern / courtesy Tate
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