'Transmissions' explores the upsurge in performance-related practice that continues to suffuse the contemporary art world. A series of reportage films and collaborations on SHOWstudio during 2005-2007, created as a diary documenting each event live, 'Transmissions' captures a portrait of the scene though artist-created footage, short film, ephemera and live imagery
Francis Alys
‘Rehearsal II’ was a performance devised by Belgian artist Francis Alys in collaboration with Rafael Ortega, staged at The Slipper Room in New York. Removing elements of conclusiveness from the performance by emphasising rehearsal and repetition, the piece was devised to “allegorically explore notions of promise and disappointment, as well as the avoidance of success.” Familiar stage performers – a stripper, a pianist and a soprano- are brought together in a less typical arrangement for this public rehearsal.
