Tate Britain's generous offer of exhibition space throughout the year has provided an anchor for the Centenary Programme in London. The Society has invited three artists to use Tate's collection as a starting point to select works that fascinate and inspire them. Establishing a Platform, the title for this series, began at Tate Britain with Elizabeth Price’s installation, Perfect Courses and Shimmering Substances, (5 February–3 May) and continues with Ponder Pause Process (A Situation) by Yane Calovski. A third selection of works will be made by the recent Turner Prize winner, Richard Wright in the autumn.

Yane Calovski has treated the Contemporary Art Society’s invitation to work with and from Tate's Collection and Archive as an opportunity to start a period of research that has led him, perhaps inevitably, to question a range of preconceptions and assumptions that relate to the collection and conservation of art. Calovski’s installation brings together artworks that rely on an active audience engagement to fulfil their conceptual promise. These works anticipate the effect on the viewer, who is invited to experience fresh ways of acting and thinking, which as a result triggers new narratives around the works.

In addition, on 15 May, Calovski has invited the group OuUnPo (A Workshop of Potential Universes), to meet in Gallery 1 for a discussion within the context of his installation. OuUnPo is an itinerant project, whose members meet only rarely, to explore the concept of time, space and the role of subjectivity in contemporary art discourse.  

Link to the CAS page on the Tate's website here

The opening events were covered by BBC Macedonia - to see the report please click here