The New Karina Beumer

You are invited to join the congregation of ‘Public Universal Television’ to help choose who will become ‘The New Karina Beumer’. For this piece of performance art you will become part of an esoteric church of video-making and sit behind the cameras during the live production of a television game show on the spectacular Tempel stage. Four contestants will complete a series of artistic tasks to convince you of their vision for the very soul of art and be crowned as the new Karina.

 

Directed by Leslie Lawrence and Sophia Simensky and hosted by Karina Beumer featuring Karina Beumer, Karina Beumer, Karina Beumer and Karina Beumer. The performance is presented in English or in Dutch with English subtitles.

 

Public Universal Television is a new art performance series by Leslie Lawrence & Sophia Simensky, developing their practice of performing the artistic production of popular media in co-operation with their audience. Residing in the former theosophical temple of Amsterdam, they have created an esoteric society of video makers looking at news ways to make co-operative media. For each performance they co-operate with a different artist, making them the guest host of a new tv show, the filming of which is then staged for the live audience as a piece of performance art. Public Universal Television is supported by the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts).

All pictures by Elodie Vreeburg