Off Modern contributor Paul Purgas curates this fridays Late at Tate, bringing together a night of sound and visuals inspired by the Vorticist literary magazine Blast. The Vorticists created a radical new language with which to express the excitement and ravages of the modern machine age. Vortex Revisions plans to adopt the spirit of Blast as a framework for examining the conflicted relationship between art, technology and humanity, exploring the legacy of these ideas within visual art and experimental sonic practice. Film screenings include John Russell’s Vermillion Vortex, Cyprien Gaillard’s The Lake Arches as well as Off Modern collaborator Hannah Perry’s Sublimate Bass. Performances come from Matt Loveridge from the brilliant Beak> (why haven’t we put them on before?) and Bruce Gilbert from none other than Wire.

Films: 18.30–19.25
John Russell Vermillion Vortex 23 min
Hannah Perry Sublimate Bass 3 min
Mark Dean Christian Disco (Terminator) 3 min
Takeshi Murata Untitled (Silver) 12 min
Aïda Ruilova Goner 11 min
Cyprien Gaillard The Lake Arches 3 min

Performances: 19.30–21.30

Get clued up (sort of) on Vorticism by downloading Blast. It’s a pretty antagonistic magazine but Wyndham Lewis was a pretty antagonistic guy living in pretty antaogonistic times, WWI was about to break out don’t you know.