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).

New Materials in the Reading of the World

Transmission Gallery is pleased to present New Materials in the Reading of the World a video by artist Chooc Ly Tan. Using spoken word, imagery and sound New Materials in the Reading of the world narrates a poetic and political concept. Oubliism suggests a new way of approaching the laws of physics and the rational way in which we respond to our existence. Sparks of rebellion and revolution are formulated with an attempt to challenge our current habitual status.

Chooc Ly Tan’s multidisciplinary practice includes performance, video, text and sculpture. Part of her inquiry is the arguable role of Physics, which is scrutinized through materiality and time-based media to question its attributed functions. Tan’s often playful experiments explore fragility, with matter that coexists in states between order and chaos, for example, gravity or materials that repel or work against each other to create tension and volatility.

Chooc Ly Tan (b. 1981, France) lives and works in London. Upcoming exhibitions include a solo presentation at Carlos/Ishikawa, London (2012). Most recently, she exhibited at the annual StartPoint Prize, Brno, in the Czech Republic. Tan was part of the group exhibition Beyond Ourselves, at the Royal Society, London (2011) and she performed Walter Joseph Steinarsson at Stedefreund gallery, Berlin (2010). Screenings include KNSTHS FMR # 2, Ybl Palace, Budapest (2009), and Nuit Blanche, Paris (2009).

Recently, her video New Materials in the Reading of the World was selected by 2010 Jarman Award winner, Emily Wardill, to take part in SELECTED (2011). This touring screening was initiated by FLAMIN and Videoclub; venues included CCA, Glasgow,  the Whitechapel gallery, London, Picture This, Bristol, etc. Tan lived in Iceland 2007-2009, where she also took residencies in remote locations, the Skaftfell Art Centre (2009) and the Galtarviti lighthouse (2008). She graduated with a BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martin (2006) and an MFA at Goldsmiths (2011). 

Chooc Ly Tan will give an Artists talk on 12th January in Transmission’s Resource Room at 7pm. Free entry, all welcome