Performing for the Camera 2016

Group show at Tate Modern
curated by Simon Baker
accompanied by catalogue

Including the work Strip 1999-2000 a set of 54 c type prints on aluminium approximately 2 x 4 metres when installed.

The uploaded images include some details of the work and there is a shot of the installation in Simons Bakers video description on the exhibition website.
It was interesting to see how the terms of the discussion had changed from when the work was first shown at Lisson Gallery in 2000.
The relation to performance is of particular interest to me in this and other work.

extract below of Simon Bakers description of the exhibition

Photography has been used to capture performances since its invention – from the stars of the Victorian stage to the art happenings of the 1960s, right up to today’s trend for selfies.

This exhibition explores the relationship between the two forms, looking at how performance artists use photography and how photography is in itself a performance.
Performing for the Camera includes over 500 images, including vintage prints, large scale works, marketing posters and Instagrammed photos. It shows how photographs have captured performances by important artists including Yves Klein and Yayoi Kusama, and ground-breaking collaborations between photographers, performers and dancers. It looks at how artists including Francesca Woodman, Erwin Wurm and others have used photography as a stage on which to perform, and how figures from Cindy Sherman and Hannah Wilke to Marcel Duchamp and Samuel Fosso have used photography to explore identity.