Last BMW Tate Live Performace Room of the year: Nora Schultz “Terminal +”

German artist Nora Schultz will present a new performance work for BMW Tate Live that explores the hyper real and detached nature of cyberspace. Her live performance will be broadcast on 11 December 20:00GMT via the Tate’s You Tube channel www.youtube.com/user/tate/tatelive. BMW Tate Live Performance Room is a pioneering programme of live performances commissioned exclusively for online viewing and simultaneously seen by international audiences across world time zones. BMW Tate Live is a longterm partnership between BMW and Tate, which focuses on performance, interdisciplinary art and curating digital space.

For this work Nora Schultz references the Stephen Spielberg film, Terminal, that sees a man trapped in an American airport terminal when refused entry to the US and simultaneously not able to return to his own country after his nationality status is declared invalid. Schultz sees parallels in the exaggerated reality and isolated existence of the airport terminal, emphasised in the film, with the nature of performance and the position of a performer...

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