BMW Tate Live Performance Room: Cally Spooner “And You Were Wonderful, On Stage”. Online on 27 Februrary 2014 at 20:00 GMT.

London. British artist Cally Spooner presents the first commission of 2014 for BMW Tate Live.The two-part work “And You Were Wonderful, On Stage” draws on the genre of Broadway musicals and is written for a chorus line singing a cappella. The first part of this piece was performed for a live audience at Tate Britain on 21 January. Cally Spooner has now developed “And You Were Wonderful, On Stage” into an online performance for the BMW Tate Live Performance Room on 27 February. BMW Tate Live Performance Roomis a pioneering strand of live, online performances simultaneously seen by international audiences across world time zones via www.youtube.com/user/tate/tatelive. BMW Tate Live is a longterm partnership between BMW and Tate, which focuses on performance, interdisciplinary art and curating digital space. In February 2014, the format has been shortlisted in the category of arts sponsorship for the UK Sponsorship Awards. 

For the first part at Tate Britain on 21 January, the chorus line gossiped about current affairs and fallen heroes in exchanges about well-known media events from the worlds of politics, pop music and sport. Specifically, they focused on occasions when fake or controlled performances had been presented as live and authentic. The work referenced the studies of French philosopher Bernard Steigler which considered how time and technology impact on our daily lives and explored the development of speech and language. 

In the second part of the commission, Spooner will now take elements from the first event and introduce new characters and material for the live online performance on 27 February.

This innovative format offers international audiences an opportunity to experience entirely new live works and to join a discussion about the work online. The global online audience are encouraged to chat with other viewers via social media channels during the performance and to put questions to the artist or curator for the live Q&A by following @TateLive, using #BMWTateLive; Tate Facebook; or Tate Google+. Each online performance is archived and available to view online after the live event. 

BMW Tate Live Performance Room: Cally Spooner  

27 February 2014, 20:00 GMT

Online at www.youtube.com/user/tate/tatelive 

The musical composition for “And You Were Wonderful, On Stage” is by Peter Joslyn; devised with and performed by Rhiannon Drake, Helen Hart, Jenny Minton, Piya Malik, Rebecca Thorn and Chloë Turpin; the costumes are by Malene List Thomsen; choreography by Adam Weinert; produced by Edd Hobbs.  

British artist Cally Spooner lives and works in London. For her performance pieces, Spooner produces plotless novellas, disjunctive theatre plays, looping monologues and musical arrangements to stage the movement and behaviour of speech. Her work includes writing, film, live performance, and broadcasting. Recent solo exhibitions and performances include “And You Were Wonderful, On Stage”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and Performa 13, New York; “Post Show - Seven Thirty Till Eight”, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; “Collapsing In Parts, International Project Space”, International Project Space, Birmingham; “Seven Thirty Till Nine”, Shanaynay, Paris; and “Cally Spooner: Footnote 5” with Dulcie Lewis and Peter Joslyn, ICA, London. Cally Spooner is a recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists 2013.

BMW Tate Live is curated by Catherine Wood, Curator, Contemporary Art and Performance, Tate and Capucine Perrot, Assistant Curator, Tate Modern. 

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