InstallationOctober 18, 2021
Anicka Yi at the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
The Korean-American artist Anicka Yi presents giant floating robots and millennia-old odors at the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. The first Turbine Hall commission (‘Hyundai Commission’) since 2019. On view until the 16th of January, 2022.
Anicka Yi: In Love With The World, the installation has been researched for the last two years in a process Yi calls a ‘radical voyage with no roadmap’ and a journey she admits was as personal as creative. ‘There was so much transformation of every facet of the project, internally, externally. And it’s a radically different project than the one we would have produced had we opened last January, or last October, as we were originally slated to do.’
The Tate Modern has initially been part of Bankside Power Station to house electricity-generating machinery. Yi’s installation fills the space with machines once again. Her machines, called aerobes, are based on ocean life forms and mushrooms that will be floating in the air. The aerobes re-imagine artificial intelligence and encourage us to think about new ways machines might inhabit the world. Yi has also created unique scents which change weekly, with odors linked to a particular time in the history of Bankside.
Anicka Yi: In Love With The World, the installation has been researched for the last two years in a process Yi calls a ‘radical voyage with no roadmap’ and a journey she admits was as personal as creative. ‘There was so much transformation of every facet of the project, internally, externally. And it’s a radically different project than the one we would have produced had we opened last January, or last October, as we were originally slated to do.’
The Tate Modern has initially been part of Bankside Power Station to house electricity-generating machinery. Yi’s installation fills the space with machines once again. Her machines, called aerobes, are based on ocean life forms and mushrooms that will be floating in the air. The aerobes re-imagine artificial intelligence and encourage us to think about new ways machines might inhabit the world. Yi has also created unique scents which change weekly, with odors linked to a particular time in the history of Bankside.
