Tele Visions – Performance Space

Overview

Come December 3, 2013, we will say goodbye to analog TV forever. Will we miss the fuzzy quirks of the antiquated ‘box’? As the old signal bites the dust, a swarm of 20th-century events has started to flood back, excavated from public and personal memory.

Tele Visions is an ambitious new project from Performance Space. Curated by Emma White and Alex Ramsay, it is a timely reflection on the televisual space. Over five days, a pop-up TV channel will broadcast live performances, screenings, talks and interruptions. As we’re thrust further into the digital age, Tele Vision aims to celebrate the end of an era, as well as mulling over the cultural and technological phenomenon that opened up the world in new ways and changed the way we interact with each other.

Over the five days, why not join Kate Blackmore and Frances Barrett as they watch the entirety of the world's longest running sitcom, The Simpsons, for Box Set, a performance art endurance project that bears a lot of similarity with an activity many of us submit to on the best weekends? There's a sleepover at their binge base and everything. Or be there on opening night, when artist Lara Thoms "commemorates static", in a project executed with 86-year-old Joy Hruby, who broadcasts her own show, Joys World, from her Botany garage. Shortly after, Joel Stern, with Neurovision, will attempt to erase your understanding of television via some artsy neuro-programming.

The one-off transmission will be available to view live online and via short-range analog TV broadcast. Or you can get amongst the action at Carriageworks and the Verge Gallery. So nestle in with some of Australia's most charismatic performers and get reminiscing.

Tele Visions is part of the Performance Space You're History season, something of a birthday party for Performance Space, but don't worry about bringing a gift. They're actually giving you the presents: wrapped-up pieces of performance, visual art, dance, music and more, celebrating their big 3-0. Also showing is Brown Council's ode to feminist performance artist Barbara Cleveland, the bite-sized art of 30 Ways with Time and Space, the journey into mad methodologies in The Directors' Cuts and plenty more.