UNIQLO Tate Play: Mega Please Draw Freely
Mega Please Draw Freely at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall (2021) UNIQLO Tate Play invites you to draw on banners and all over the floor of the Turbine Hall in an ever-changing artwork, Mega Please Draw Freely, by artist Ei Arakawa. Your drawings will combine with the drawings of others – those who came before you and those who came after you – to create this living mega artwork! We will hang the banners up each Monday for everyone to see. Inspired by the Gutai group – radical Japanese artists who wanted to change the world through painting, performance and children’s play – everyone of all ages is welcome to scribble, sketch and become part of this collective artwork.
Performed by Family Engagement Assistants with Ei Arakawa
Music by Sergei Tcherepnin and Stefan Tcherepnin
Reproduction of Noh theatre pine tree paintings by Matsuno Hideyo and Dōmoto Inshō, Kanze Noh Theatre, Tokyo and Kyoto
Board layout design by Cameron Leadbetter
Ashiya park photographs by Yuki Kimura and Nakagawa Ai
Magazine covers from Kirin (February 1948 to May 1964), edited by Ukita Yozō and Hoshi Yoshirō
Essay, Kirin & Gutai, 1995, written by Katō Mizuho
Translated by Reiko Tomii
Reproduction of Paul Cézanne The Great Pine near Aix c. 1895–97, The State Hermitage Museum collection
Production assisted by Mashiyama Takayuki, Taka Ishii Gallery
Special thanks to Katō Mizuho, Takahashi Kenji, Tanaka Kazuhito, Yamashina Yaemon and Ukita Yozō
Companies
TATE
- Arts and Culture