'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
More in this project
- Overview
- Alexandra Bachzetsis
- Antony & The Johnsons
- Art Basel Miami Beach
- Beauties of the Night
- Berlin Biennial
- Carl Hopgood
- Cerith Wyn Evans
- cheapcream
- Christian Marclay
- Daria Martin & Zeena Parkins
- Derek Jarman
- Duggie Fields
- Ei Arakawa
- Enrico David
- Francis Alys
- Gustav Metzger
- Guy de Cointet
- Janice Kerbel
- Jimmy Robert
- Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan
- Jonathan Meese
- Jutta Koether
- Martin Creed
- Maria Pask
- Linder Sterling
- Pil & Galia Kollectiv
- Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether
- Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether
- K2ao and Stephan Dillemuth
- Lali Chetwynd
- Los Super Elegantes
- No Bra
- Pablo Bronstein
- Peter Saville
- Rirkrit Tiravanija
- Roger Hiorns
- Sunn O)))
- Stephanie Taylor
- Pablo Bronstein
- Rodney Graham
- Stephen Willats
- Sue Tompkins
- The Landsc Apes
- The Dimes of March
- The Otolith Group
- The Thing-In-Itself
- Tris Vonna Mitchell
- Utrecht
- Ulla von Brandenburg
- Whitstable Biennale
- William Hunt
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The Thing-In-Itself
At Peles Empire, an artist run outfit that stages occasional exhibitions and events, Mark Leckey was invited to curate a project. He invited one-time students of his JD Williams and Andy Holden who made sculptures and wall work, as well as a live outdoor work which happened in a nearby basketball court. It involved a car, car radio and a sculpture in a face-off (without a specific climactic moment). This was shown in the busy, convivial space of Peles alongside Leckey's own giant Incredible Hulk 3-D cut out and Duck animation video set in nearby Old Street tube station. The footage is rather murky, but the 'thingness' of the sharply lit pseudo (temporary) public sculpture was in keeping with the introductory text about bulk and mass and corporeality.
