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While the subject of 鈥渞ehearsal鈥� is popular in film and theatre, as well as in the fine arts, it has been scarcely considered in historical and contemporary art discourses. It is with this in mind that the exhibition Putting Rehearsals to the Test investigates the role and function of the notion of 鈥渞ehearsal,鈥� understood as a methodology, a modus operandi, a medium, a site of representation and reflection for artistic production processes.

his screening program, an integral part of the exhibition Putting Rehearsals to the Test, brings together fourteen productions made between 2006 and 2015, backdropped by three key works that have been essential to the development of the overall project since 2012: Yvonne Rainer鈥檚 Lives of Performers (1972), Jean-Luc Godard鈥檚 Passion and Sc茅nario du film Passion (both 1982), and the Italian underground film ANNA, by Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli (1972鈥�75). The program is loosely constellated around specific subjects and discourses raised by these three works, which, when originally released, were watershed moments in the artistic practice of the respective director/artists and, in a broader sense, profoundly influential on the political/artistic practice of other artists and filmmakers of their generations and generations to come. At the same time, the three parts of the program relate to the respective conceptual focal points of the three galleries. 

A three-part exhibition presented at VOX, centre de l鈥檌mage contemporaine, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, and the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery. A two-part film program screened at the Cin茅math猫que qu茅b茅coise and VOX.