Performance Room is a series of performances commissioned and conceived using online space as its primary medium.
On Thursday 22 March 2012 at 20.00, Jérôme Bel became the first artist to perform live from Tate Modern specifically for an online audience and subsequently launched BMW Tate Live: Performance Room.
Since the first performance room, 13 brand new online commissions have been created for BMW Tate Live with another two to follow this year and another four in 2015. Over 140,000 people have viewed performance room and it has reached 90 countries worldwide.
This screening includes every commission made since the start of the Performance Room series in 2012, and is the first time these works have been shown together.
Performances have, and will continue to be broadcast live from Tate Modern on certain Thursdays at 20.00 in the UK. Each performance is streamed live, across the world, on Tate’s website and YouTube Channel. The global online audience is invited to join the online performance space via YouTube, and encouraged to chat with other viewers via social media channels during the performance and to put questions to the artist or curator for the live Q&A following the performance. Each performance is then archived and available to view online after the event.
Performance Room commissions featured:
Jérôme Bel, Shirtology 22 March 2012, 18 min
Pablo Bronstein, Constantinople Kaleidoscope 26 April 2012, 11 min
Emily Roysdon, I am a helicopter, camera, queen 31 May 2012, 13 min
Harrell Fletcher, Where I’m Calling From 28 June 2012, 16 min
Joan Jonas, Draw Without Looking 28 February 2013, 15 min
Liu Ding, Almost Avantgarde 16 May 2013, 26 min
Meiro Koizumi, The Birth of Tragedy 13 June 2013, 25 min
Nicoline Van Harskamp, English Forecast 19 September 2013, 38 min
Ragnar Kjartansson, Variation on Meat Joy 24 October 2013, 24 min
Daniel Linehan, untitled duet 12 December 2013, 19 min
Cally Spooner, He's in a Great Place! (A film trailer for And You Were Wonderful, On Stage) 27 February 2014, 8 min
Bojana Cvejić and Christine de Smedt, Spatial Confessions 22 May 2014, 22 min
Selma and Sofiane Ouissi, Les Yeux d’Argos 18 September 2014, 19 min
