Catherine Sullivan initially trained as an actress, and is best known for theatre and video work that explores the conventions of performance and role-playing. Her video installation The Chittendens: The Resuscitation of Uplifting (2005) was made in collaboration with the composer Sean Griffin, who wrote the score. It features 16 actors dressed to represent stereotypes from nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. The actors follow a series of behavioural patterns, gestures or movements devised by Sullivan, which are composed into sequences that can be performed like a musical score. By focusing so intensely on acting technique, and isolating actions and emotions from their original context, Sullivan reveals the raw artifice underlying the naturalistic surface of performance.

Pawel Althamer | Cezary Bodzianowski | Ulla Von Brandenburg | Jeremy Deller | Trisha Donnelly | Geoffrey Farmer | Andrea Fraser | Dominique Gonzalez - Foerster | Jeppe Hein | Renata Lucas | Rita McBride | Roman Ondák | Markus Schinwald | Tino Sehgal | Catherine Sullivan | Mario Ybarra Jr