A visit to Transmission Gallery to discuss the work of Anja Kirschner and David Panos. There will also be an opportunity to see the newly established Transmission Gallery Resource Room which houses an incredible archive, collected and collated by the gallery, through the years.
Athens-based artists Anja Kirschner and David Panos present a new multi-channel video installation entitled 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 unnatural 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 Meisners exercises and material from the history of theatre and cinema. Kirschner and Panos aim to interrogate the assumptions of post-modern naturalism and its blurring of the distinction between dramatic artifice and seemingly primal, human impulses.
