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Welcome to The Unilever Series: turbinegeneration

INTERNATIONALLY LINKING SCHOOLS AND GALLERIES THROUGH CONTEMPORARY ART

turbinegeneration is an international schools project connected to The Unilever Series, the annual commission that invites an artist to make a work of art specifically for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. This year’s artist is Miroslaw Balka. turbinegeneration takes its project theme from this commission, with this year’s theme ‘RITES OF PASSAGE’ reflecting recurring themes in Balka’s work.

The Unilever Series: turbinegeneration enables schools across the world to explore cultural issues through the language of art. turbinegeneration finds international partners for schools so that they can share ideas through a variety of media in order to enhance their understanding of the world: from photography, sound, video and dance, to drama and oral stories; in fact anything that can be sent as DATA through the INTERNET. The best way to understand how this project works is to look at the examples from last year’s collaborations in our Gallery.

turbinegeneration is unique in that practising artists create the project packs and international galleries advise the partnerships as their collaborations progress.

Each year the number of countries participating in turbinegeneration will increase. This year (September 2009 to July 2010) 12 countries are involved. By 2012 this network will have grown to include schools and galleries in over 30 countries .

Here’s how it works:

  1. Complete the Join Us registration form.
  2. Tate will partner you with an international school and you can use the project packs as inspiration for your collaboration.
  3. Artwork generated through these collaborations will be displayed in our online gallery.
  4. You can continue collaborating with your partner for another year on a new theme based upon the next Unilever Series artist or request a new international partner.
unilever_logo_blueThe Unilever Series: turbinegeneration is an online educational partnership linking schools and galleries internationally. The turbinegeneration project is produced by Tate and sponsored by Unilever. Unilever is a global manufacturer of leading brands in foods, home care and personal care. Unilever places great emphasis on education and helping local communities through a variety of projects around the world.