Harrell Fletcher
Where I’m Calling From
Online at www.youtube.com/tate
Thursday, 28 June at 20.00 BST
Artist Harrell Fletcher invites busking musicians to take their performances from the tube stations and streets of London into the gallery to play live, online to the BMW Tate Live Performance Room’s global audience on 28 June.
Harrell Fletcher’s work often takes the form of socially engaged collaborative and interdisciplinary projects. For his BMW Tate Live performance, Where I’m Calling From, the musicians will shift from playing to a local London audience to performing on a global online stage. By moving these performers from tube station, to gallery space, and then back out to the world through the web, Harrell Fletcher aims to question value, and the influence of the internet.
Where I’m Calling From continues the BMW Tate Live Performance Room series—a pioneering programme of live, online performances simultaneously seen by international audiences across world time zones at www.youtube.com/tate.
Audiences only view the BMW Tate Live performances on the internet and are invited to enter the online Performance Room via www.youtube.com/user/tate/tatelive at 20.00 in the UK and exactly the same moment across time zones on the specified dates—16.00 on the East Coast of America, 21.00 in mainline Europe, and 23.00 in Russia.
The global audience is encouraged to chat with other viewers via social media channels during the performance and to put questions to the artist or curator following it using Tate’s social media channels—www.twitter.com/tate using #BMWTateLiveQ and www.facebook.com/tategallery.
This innovative format offers international audiences an opportunity to experience performance works through an entirely new mode of presentation. Each performance is archived and available to view online after the live event. Previous artists to perform in the series are Jérôme Bel, Pablo Bronstein, and Emily Roysdon.
BMW Tate Live is a four-year partnership between BMW and Tate, which focuses on performance, interdisciplinary art and curating digital space. BMW Tate Live: Performance Room is the inaugural strand of the partnership and features four commissions in 2012, and will continue in 2013 with a new series of six commissions.
BMW Tate Live is curated by Catherine Wood, Curator, Contemporary Art and Performance, Tate, and Kathy Noble, Curator of Interdisciplinary Projects, Tate, and assisted by Capucine Perrot, assistant curator, Tate.
