Anja Kirschner & David Panos

Transmission Gallery are delighted to welcome the return of Anja Kirschner and David Panos with a new multi-channel video installation living truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

The work considers the acting techniques developed by Sanford Meisner, which remain highly influential on American theatre and Hollywood cinema. Based on a set of persuasive assumptions about the ‘true’ nature of human behavior, the Meisner Technique paradoxically combines an un-natural training routine of intense repetition and observational feedback with the prospect of authentic experience and emotion in performance.

The installation combines footage of young actors working with Meisner's exercises and material from the history of theatre and cinema. Kirschner & Panos aim to interrogate the assumptions of post-modern naturalism and its blurring of the distinction between dramatic artifice and seemingly 'primal', 'human' impulses.

David Panos will give a short Q&A in the resource room at the preview on 21st January, 7pm.

A performance by Howard Slater will accompany this exhibition at Transmission Gallery, on 17th February, 7pm.

Anja Kirschner (*1977, Munich) & David Panos (*1971, Athens) currently live and work in Athens. Recent solo exhibitions include Hollybush Gardens, London [2011], Castillo/Corrales, Paris (2011), Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (2011), Kunsthall Oslo (2011), Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (2010), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2009), Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (2009), Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2009); recent group shows include British Art Show 7, Nottingham, London, Glasgow, Plymouth (2010/2011), There Is No Alternative, Konsthall C, Stockholm (2010), Depression, Marres, Maastricht (2009), Everything Then Passes Between Us, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2009) and Nought to Sixty, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2008).