Celebrating Analog

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Tacita Dean: FILM

The Turbine Hall, Tate Modern

London, U.K.

October 11, 2011-March 11, 2012

Housed in a former power station designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the Tate. Modern benefits from an immense, five-story exhibition space known as the Turbine Hall. Each year since the gallery's opening in 2000, Unilever has sponsored an artist to create an installation for this space. Past pieces include Olafur Eliasson's "The Weather Project'" (2003-04), which brought sun, sky, and clouds indoors; and Carsten Holler's "Test Site" (2006 07), a long, curly, silver tube for visitors to slide down. Doris Salcedo created a large crack in the floor of the hall for "Shibboleth" (2007-08), while last year Ai Weiwei's "Sunflower Seeds" covered the same floor …