ARE YOU READY FOR TV?

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.