ARE YOU READY FOR TV?
19/10/2010.
TV MACBA. 05/11/2010 - 25/04/2011
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
This is an exhibition that explores the paradoxical aesthetic and public space that contemporary art and philosophy produce once they leave the museum and academia and get shown on television. It is a project realized from television's point of view and from the space it inhabits.
The result is an unusual reading of television in ten sections that form an itinerary to unlearn what we know about the medium and shift discursive positions, cheat the senses, and escape the duality between sender and receiver.
The result is an unusual reading of television in ten sections that form an itinerary to unlearn what we know about the medium and shift discursive positions, cheat the senses, and escape the duality between sender and receiver.
TVTV Looks at the Oscars, 1976. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
David Hall. TV Interruptions: 7 TV Pieces, 1971. Courtesy of David Hall and LUX, London.
Marta Traba en el estudio, programa. El Museo imaginario, ca 1955. Archivo particular, Bogotá, Colombia.© Gustavo Zalamea, 2010.
Marta Traba en el estudio, programa. El Museo imaginario, ca 1955. Archivo particular, Bogotá, Colombia.© Gustavo Zalamea, 2010.
Marta Traba en el estudio, programa. El Museo imaginario, ca 1955. Archivo particular, Bogotá, Colombia.© Gustavo Zalamea, 2010.
Marta Traba en el estudio, programa. El Museo imaginario, ca 1955. Archivo particular, Bogotá, Colombia.© Gustavo Zalamea, 2010.
Jaime Davidovich. The Live! Show (April 29, 1983). Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Douglas Davis. Ménage à Trois. 1986. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
David Hall. TV Interruptions: 7 TV Pieces, 1971. Courtesy of David Hall and LUX, London.
Artists and philosophers whose programs for television are included are, among many others: Martha Rosler, Jean-Luc Godard, Anne Marie Miéville, Jef Cornellis, David Lamelas, Guy Debord, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Richard Serra, Carlota Fay Schoolman, Chris Burden and Andy Warhol. The importance of presenting this material in a museum of contemporary art is that they were, or are, outside of their time.
The common trait of the work is that they cannot be deducted from their era: on the contrary, these ways of re-creating the world were at their outset imagined to be different from their era. Are You Ready For TV? Investigates what we today can learn from this hypothesis and in what form they contribute to interpreting not only the medium of television but also the museum as a medium.
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