Tate Eggschange 2020

What

In association with the National Saturday Club (NSC), Scale Rule ran an interdisciplinary workshop with over 100 (one hundred!) 13-16 year old club members. The workshops were held on Saturday 25th January and Saturday 1st February at the Tate Exchange in London and focused on the Power of Collaboration.

Scale Rule volunteers from across the architecture and engineering community led groups of young people from NSC to visit artworks in the Tate Modern galleries. The artworks reflect upon – or inspire reflection upon – ideas of community, collaboration and support.

After a close study of these pieces (including sketching and discussions with volunteers) the Club members returned to the Tate Exchange space to consider their responses to the artworks.

Those responses took on a three-dimensional form as each group built bamboo structures to form a ‘room’. Within their room, the teams were challenged to weave a web of wool that allowed a person to move through. As an uneggspected structural engineering challenge to be accommodated within their design, the teams also had to incorporate the suspension of an egg within the space.

N.B. No eggs were harmed in the making of these structures!

2020-01-25 Masterclass with Scale Rule with members from seven diferent Saturday Clubs from London, held at the Tate Exchange, Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern. Club members studied selected art works and drew inspiration from them when creating their own structures from bamboo and yarn. Photo © Magnus Andersson
2020-01-25 Masterclass with Scale Rule with members from seven diferent Saturday Clubs from London, held at the Tate Exchange, Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern. Club members studied selected art works and drew inspiration from them when creating their own structures from bamboo and yarn. Photo © Magnus Andersson
2020-02-01 Masterclass with Scale Rule and members from six different Saturday Clubs, held at the Tate Exchange, Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London. Club members studied selected artworks and then drew inspiration from them when creating their own structures, using bamboo and yarn. Photo © Magnus Andersson http://www.magnus-andersson.com
© Magnus Andersson & National Saturday Club
2020-01-25 Masterclass with Scale Rule with members from seven diferent Saturday Clubs from London, held at the Tate Exchange, Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern. Club members studied selected art works and drew inspiration from them when creating their own structures from bamboo and yarn. Photo © Magnus Andersson
2020-01-25 Masterclass with Scale Rule and members from seven different Saturday Clubs, held at the Tate Exchange, Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London. Club members studied selected art works and drew inspiration from them when creating their own structures from bamboo and yarn. Photo © Magnus Andersson
2020-02-01 Masterclass with Scale Rule and members from six different Saturday Clubs, held at the Tate Exchange, Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London. Club members studied selected artworks and then drew inspiration from them when creating their own structures, using bamboo and yarn. Photo © Magnus Andersson http://www.magnus-andersson.com
2020-01-25 Masterclass with Scale Rule and members from seven different Saturday Clubs, held at the Tate Exchange, Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London. Club members studied selected art works and drew inspiration from them when creating their own structures from bamboo and yarn. Photo © Magnus Andersson
2020-02-01 Masterclass with Scale Rule and members from six different Saturday Clubs, held at the Tate Exchange, Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London. Club members studied selected artworks and then drew inspiration from them when creating their own structures, using bamboo and yarn. Photo © Magnus Andersson http://www.magnus-andersson.com
2020-01-25 Masterclass with Scale Rule and members from seven different Saturday Clubs, held at the Tate Exchange, Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London. Club members studied selected art works and drew inspiration from them when creating their own structures from bamboo and yarn. Photo © Magnus Andersson
2020-02-01 Masterclass with Scale Rule and members from six different Saturday Clubs, held at the Tate Exchange, Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London. Club members studied selected artworks and then drew inspiration from them when creating their own structures, using bamboo and yarn. Photo © Magnus Andersson http://www.magnus-andersson.com
2020-02-01 Masterclass with Scale Rule and members from six different Saturday Clubs, held at the Tate Exchange, Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London. Club members studied selected artworks and then drew inspiration from them when creating their own structures, using bamboo and yarn. Photo © Magnus Andersson http://www.magnus-andersson.com
2020-02-01 Masterclass with Scale Rule and members from six different Saturday Clubs, held at the Tate Exchange, Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London. Club members studied selected artworks and then drew inspiration from them when creating their own structures, using bamboo and yarn. Photo © Magnus Andersson http://www.magnus-andersson.com
2020-01-25 Masterclass with Scale Rule and members from seven different Saturday Clubs, held at the Tate Exchange, Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London. Club members studied selected art works and drew inspiration from them when creating their own structures from bamboo and yarn. Photo © Magnus Andersson

Tate Modern Artworks visited

Shaina Anand, Ashok Sukumaran: “From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf”, 2013

Yinka Shonibare CBE display, “The British Library”, 2014

Sheba Chhachhi, “Seven Lives and a Dream”, 1980-91

Rebecca Horn, “Ballet of the Woodpeckers”, 1986

Anish Kapoor, “Ishi’s Light”, 2003

Ana Lupas, “The Solemn Process 1964–2008 (1964–74/76; 1980–5; 1985–2008)”

Edward Krasinski, “Untitled” (Ostrich egg), 2001

Team

Organisers: Steve + Phil + Laura + Sinead

Volunteers: Andrew + Annie + Maria AP + Qaisy +Ryan +Clare +Danny + John + Steven S + Alice + Damla + Sun + Basia + April + Heval + Mahmuda + Brigita + Jean-Pierre + Matt + Kalpana + Chris + Maria GR + Francesca + Manolis + Muyiwa

With

National Saturday Club

Tate Exchange