Peter Saville, Ulla von Brandenburg, Tris Vonna-Michell, Throbbing Gristle, The Rebel, Sunn O))), Sue Tompkins, Stephen Willats, Stephan Dillemuth, Stephanie Taylor, Roger Hiorns, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Pablo Bronstein, No Bra, Martin Creed, Maria Pask, Man Like Me, Los Super Elegantes, Lali Chetwynd, Koudlam & Cyprien Gaillard, Kim Gordon, K2 Aufbau Organisation, Jutta Koether, Jonathan Meese, Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan, Jimmy Robert, Janice Kerbel, Guy de Cointet, Gustav Metzger, Enrico David, Ei Arakawa, Duggie Fields, Christian Marclay, Christabel Stewart, Cerith Wyn Evans, Cerith Wyn Evans, Carl Hopgood, Beauties of the Night, Antony & the Johnsons, Antony Hegarty, Andy Holden and Alexandra Bachzetsis

Transmissions

'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

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Guy de Cointet

 

The late Guy de Cointet is a figure central to the largely unmined Conceptual performance movement of three decades ago, an artist who expounded a kind of Surrealist theatre of the absurd which employed a very succinct and beautiful way of making structural linguistics visible. The artist himself descibes his stage performaces thus:

"What I like is the texture of the characters interacting with the objects and shapes and feeling completely at ease with them. . . . The audience sees arrangements and piles of painted geometric forms. During the course of my plays these forms are talked about and their identities revealed. After the audience discovers what everything is, sometimes they’re even more confused."

French born, Cointet moved to the states in the late 1960s, briefly becoming one of Warhol's Factory visitors in New York, before setttling in Los Angeles. His work was well regarded in his lifetime, and remained influential long after his death (in 1983), particularly to west coast practitioners such as Mike Kelley and Allen Ruppersberg.