The Long Weekend
To mark the twentieth anniversary of the death of Andy Warhol, the Tate Modern hosted The Long Weekend May 25-28. Museum goers were encouraged to bring sleeping bags to a 19-hour screening of Warhol’s film Sleep accompanied by a performance of Erik Satie’s Vexations played by 10 pianists (including composers Michael Nyman and Gavin Bryars)– repeated 840 times. And all this while visitors drifted in and out of sleep on the Tate’s cold, concrete floor. The Guardian’s Samuel Wigley has a first hand account of the Tate’s mass sleepover.
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