Satellite of Love – Installations II
Combined programme
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IFFR 2006
With the rise of consumer video, artists started to reflect on the medium of television. A large area of video art is taken up by critical deconstruction and ideological commentary on the most powerful of mass media. For the present generation of artists, television is no longer an enemy, rather a self-evident reference. And, above all, a source of inspiration. From a cheerful distortion of what can be a test card to a bizarre variation on animations for children’s television, and from an extreme compression of dozens of satellite signals to artists who live and work in a blue key studio. This exhibition comprises just as many visions and appreciations of the medium as there are works of art. (EC)
In this combined programme
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Rubin 2004
Inspired by an advertising sign she found by a workshop in one of Warsaw’s grey apartment buildings, Sosnowska painted a fake advertisement in which y -
Laurent Grasso
Installation about the ambiguity of the concept reality, the relationship to images and information, with various references to the same elements (vid -
Happiness
Installation with amorphous, reflecting shed of Perspex and the breaking voice of Van Lieshout while he passionately tries to make it clear to his bro -
Fox TV
Installation with nocturnal images from the studios of the American television network Fox. In the background we hear an episode of a police series. -
We interrupt your regularly scheduled program_
Installation investigates the real nature of television, with its countless broadcasting channels, ubiquitous nature and endless stream of images. Usi -
Hit
Installation that observes an empty television studio where the set built up still has to be tested. -
Monitor
Installation about the feel the tension between the real state of things and expectation, `empty’ moments such as a security camera filming an empty r -
The Kiss (Let’s Play Dynasty)
Installation with a `vintage remake’ of the most famous series in Hollywood style from the 1980s dynasty. Helmut Berger plays Alexis Carrington. -
The Inverse Armory
This installation investigates the theme of blood, both as psychological and physiological material. The very suggestive images raised doubts about th -
Untitled
Installation with Tiravanija’s own ‘illegal’ personal broadcasting station that screens Punishment Park (1971) by Peter Watkins, a documentary drama a