Martin Creed, Work No. 850, 2008. Image: daylife.com

A runner speeds through Tate Britain’s neo-classical sculpture galleries as part of a live art installation entitled ‘Work No. 850‘ by British artist Martin Creed, in London, on June 30, 2008.

The choreographed live performance centres on a simple idea: that a person will sprint as fast as they can every 30 seconds through the 86 metre gallery at the heart of Tate Britain.

Each run is followed by an equivalent pause, like a musical rest, during which the gallery is empty. The exhibition will run from July 1 to November 16, 2008.

*Incidentally, Martin Creed is famous for winning the 50,000 Pound Turner Art Prize for a piece that involved - only - the lights of the empty gallery going on and off.

Read the Globe and Mail’s article HERE.

Surprisingly, writer Elizabeth Renzetti didn’t mention Canada’s finest art run organizers, the Movement Movement, who have just run through galleries in Australia this past spring and will be inviting the public to run the Glenbow Museum in Calgary in October 2008:

The Movement Movement Run the ROM, Social Sculpture 2007. (Film Still) Image: vca.unimelb.au

They will be part of the M:ST Performative Art Festival, too. Click on that link for more info.

To get on their mailing list, register for upcoming runs, or find out what the girls are up to, check out the MM website right HERE.

VoCA ran the ROM with the MM in Toronto, and it’s pretty exhilarating!