Transformance is a video-event-work that documents a ‘performance’ that takes place over a five-month period. During this time, Nina Kurtela makes a daily habit of visiting and witnessing the changes at the building site of the Uferstudios in Berlin. During this time, an old warehouse where trams and buses were once repaired is converted into Berlin’s new centre for contemporary dance. Kurtela’s work emerges in the force field of a commitment to the daily execution of present-ness in relation to the specific context where this act takes place: the building site of the new theatre. What unfolds is an eight-minute work with multi-faceted implications. The body is rendered a statue through the changes that take place over time. The screen becomes the performing skin.