The Tate Modern's Global Cities summer show is a confused shantytown clogging the back half of the museum's immense Turbine Hall. Ironically, the show targets the dangers of rapid urban growth in the face of inadequate planning and lagging infrastructure. It's a classic case of "do as I say, not as I do." They even shot a video of themselves creating the mess.
How's it go awry? The show's themed zones-- size, speed, form, density, diversity-- remind us of the Tate's maligned exhibition categories when it first opened: environment, history, body... The zones are teeming with redundancies, inconsistencies, contradictions and lacunae, both on a formal level and in the alphabet soup of statistics and statements plastered all over the cheap board walls.
Works from artists like Andreas Gursky and Paromita Vohra are scattered among the panels of text, models and charts. Architects like Rem Koolhaas and Hadid & Schumacher contributed as well, but it wasn't always clear what exactly, or where they were. The show screams the world-wide need for what it, itself, sorely lacks: coordination!
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