'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
Ulla von Brandenburg
'Singplay', a short stage ensemble by Ulla von Brandenburg was performed as part of 'The World As A Stage', a Tate Modern show described as "a ground-breaking exhibition exploring the rich historical relationship between visual art and the notion of 'theatre'". The ground being broken is perhaps by the Tate itself, from whom this is, in fact, the first exhibition to bring gallery-based and live work together. Singplay is one of the key performances to taking place throughout the exhibition, an unusual piece of artistic theatre from the young German artist. A ‘tableau vivant’, it depicts a family who take turns to mime to a specially recorded song (pre-recorded in German by a young girl).
