Satellite of Love – TV Corner
Alternative practices in television making are not really anything new. In its nascence, the medium was fast adopted by national institutions that recognised it as the ideal carrier for transmissions of social and cultural thrust. Until the advent in 1965 of portable consumer video, artists’ aspirations to dent this flow remained largely in check. Now, however, we’ve had the benefit of three decades of artists responding to the medium on something like their own terms. For some, television itself becomes art practice, while for others art feeds back into the practice and form of television production. Between video art and activism, our TV corner proffers some historical perspective on the wealth of alternative TV initiatives and new works presented by the Satellite of Love exhibition, with documentation of ten important precedents, some of which are classics by now, others rescued from oblivion. (EC)
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The Revolution will not be Televised
Two independent film makers were inside the presidential palace on 11 April 2002, when Venezuelan president Chavez was forcibly removed from office. -
Don McLean Restorations + JLB – The Man Who Saw The Future
The restored wonders of original recordings made in the era of mechanically-scanned television! -
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Videogramme einer Revolution
Reconstruction of a revolution. During the fall of Ceausescu in Romania in 1989, demonstrators took over state television to broadcast their revolutio -
Early Collaborations
A sample of rare early collaborative works by Jud Yalkut and Nam June Paik, recorded between 1967 and 1969. -
Rabotnik TV
As opposed to conventional TV, the editing applied by Radio Rabotnik-TV Amsterdam is consistently artistic. -
DCTP TV (Development Company For Television Program)
Dadaist, multidimensional, multi-sensory experience. -
TV Interruptions (7 TV Pieces)
The first example of British artists’ television and as an equally formative moment in British video art.
