Curated & produced with Jenny Waldman, Alex Poots and Jo Paton

29 - 31 January 2003: Cai Guo-Qiang, Ye Gong Hao Long (Mr Ye Who Loves Dragons): Explosion Project for Tate Modern 2003. Cai Guo-Qiang presented Ye Gong Hao Long (Mr Ye Who Loves Dragons): Explosion Project for Tate Modern, two explosive live art works at Tate Modern. On two separate evenings he made drawings out of gunpowder, which were then set alight, along with a large-scale gunpowder trail that resembled a dragon crossing the Millennium Bridge and scaling Tate Modern’s exterior. The events celebrated Chinese New Year and the launch of the Tate & Egg Live programme.

7 - 8 February 2003: Arvo Pärt, Lamentate 2003 and Peter Sellars, For an End to the Judgement of God/Kissing God Goodbye 2003. Peter Sellars and Arvo Pärt presented two performance events in response to Anish Kapoor’s colossal Turbine Hall commission sculpture Marsyas. Sellars directed an English translation of Antonin Artaud’s play For an End to the Judgement of God 1947, and June Jordan’s poem Kissing God Goodbye 1994, while Arvo Pärt held the world premiere of his symphony Lamentate.

16 April 2003: Death and Resurrection. Death and Resurrection was an evening concert beginning with classical pieces conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner at St Paul’s Cathedral, on the north bank of the Thames, facing Tate Modern. Following this, the audience and musicians paraded across Millennium Bridge, to the darkened Turbine Hall, where a nursery song arrangement by Steve Martland was accompanied by visuals by the Quay Brothers.

23 May 2003: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. Tate Britain hosted a concert by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. One in a series of concerts hosted across the Tate sites, Cave performed in the surroundings of Tate Britain as part of the Tate & Egg Live series.

5 - 6 July 2003: Steve McQueen and Jessye Norman, 7th Nov – REST 2003. Steve McQueen and Jessye Norman’s 7th Nov. – REST was presented as a collaborative work in the Duveen Gallery at Tate Britain in 2003. The collaboration included the screening of McQueen’s film 7th Nov.(2001), followed by a musical response from Norman. Ruminating on the themes of loss and grief, the two works dealt with the story of a man’s accidental killing of his brother and the consequences of these events.

1 September 2003: PJ Harvey. Performing with a three-piece band, PJ Harvey played a concert in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern to a crowd of fans and museum attendees, the first rock concert ever to have been hosted by the museum. The gig was part of a series of musical events programmed for Tate & Egg Live in 2003.

5 – 6 September 2003: Wolfgang Tillmans, Film with music, words and singing 2003. Screened to coincide with his exhibition at Tate Britain, Film with music, words and singing was commissioned for Tate & Egg Live. Rather than staging a live performance, Tillmans decided to create a film, which followed his tendencies to have music central to his artworks, whether film or photography, and included appearances from a number of well-known performers.

Ref Performance at Tate timeline here

Tate & Egg Live also included projects curated by Catherine Wood including Mark Leckey, Big Box Statue Action 2003, La Ribot, Panaromix 2003, Franko B, I Miss You 2003, Guillermo GómezPeña, Ex-Centris (A Living diorama of Fetish-ized Others) 2002, Spartacus Chetwynd, Richard Dadd and the Dance of Death 2003, Carlos Amorales, Amorales vs Amorales 2003 and Joan Jonas, Helen in Egypt: Lines in the Sand 2004.