BMW Tate Live Performance Room Harrell Fletcher

online at www.youtube.com/user/tate/tatelive on Thursday 28 June at 21:00
and coming live to you on a big screen at NIMk.

Doors open: 20.00 (to see the exhibition 'Yes We Are Open')
please RSVP to: petra@nimk.nl
entrance: free

NIMk (Netherlands Media Art Institute) is pleased to invite you to a live streamed performance by Harrell Fletcher, taking place at the BMW Tate Live: Performance Room. The performance will be livestreamed on www.youtube.com/user/tate/tatelive

Artist Harrell Fletcher invites buskers 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 Rooms 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 Im Calling From, buskers will shift from playing to a local London audience to performing on a global online stage. By moving these musicians 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.

NIMk is interested in stretching the liveness of a performance which is aimed at an anonymous, individual and global audience, and ways of turning this into a communal and shared experience. The live screening of Fletcher's performance at NIMk takes place within the context of the exhibition currently on display: 'Yes We Are Open'. This exhibition deals with 'open' aspects connected to collaboration and authorship in the internet era. For more information please see: http://nimk.nl/eng/yes-were-open.

Where I’m Calling From by Harrell Fletcher 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.

The global audience are 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 - twitter.com/tate using #BMWTateLiveQ and facebook.com/tategallery.

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. Performance Room is an on-going series, to be continued in 2013. 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.

Thanks to Harrell Fletcher, Tate Modern, Catherine Wood, Kathy Noble and Capucine Perrot.