'Two please.'
'Two.'
'Thank you.'
'Thanks.'
'Be kind to Kate.'
'I'm sorry?'
'Be
kind to Kate.'
'Pardon?'
'It's the first time the installation has been on display since 2003.'
'Ah. Right. Thanks.'
'What did he say?'
'I thought he called you mate. Does he know you. He looked at you as if he knew you.'
'Did he?'
'But then again you've got that kind of face.'
'What kind of face.'
'The kind that makes people think they know you.'
'Have I?'
'Have you ever Googled yourself?'
'Yes. Apparently I'm a sci-fi film actor.'
'Then that's who he thought you were!'
'I don't think I'm that famous. I thought he said 'Be kind to Kate' though.'
'Perhaps he said 'Be kind to Tate'. Perhaps they want donations.'
'Oh hang on! Do you think Kate Blanchett is in here - asleep in a glass box?'
'Really? Do you think so? Quick, let's go and see in case she leaves. You go that way - I'll go this way.'
'Did you find her?'
'No, she's not there. You?'
'No.'
Tino Sehgal's works are devised as personal encounters, in which 'interpreters' follow his oral instructions to enact an ephemeral but infinitely repeatable action directed towards the individual visitor. Each work exists only in the unique moment between interpreter and visitor. Sehgal does not allow his work to be recorded or photographed; even the instructions cannot be written down.
