Son[i]a #114
Chus Martínez
“Are you Ready for TV?” is not an exhibition “about” television, but rather “from” television, where a number of exceptional tenants (artists and thinkers ) have “taken over” the television medium to force it to speak another language and provoke a fertile irritation. This exhibition brings together pieces made between 1960 and the present by 150 creators and professionals of the television medium, including Chris Burden, Jef Cornelis, Martin Kippenberger, David Lamelas, Guy Debord, Richard Serra, Bill Viola, Martha Rosler, Lucio Fontana, Samuel Beckett, Jan Dibbets, Joan Jonas, Peter Weibel, Dara Birnbaum, John Berger, Alexander Kluge, Antoni Muntadas, Harun Farocki, Paloma Chamorro, Joaquín Soler Serrano, Marta Traba, Robert Hughes, Judith Barry and Andy Warhol, among others.
The display, curated by Chus Martínez, has enjoyed the collaboration of Dora García in the preparation of the script; Johan Grimonprez and Félix Pérez-Hita, with two selections of programmes for internet; and Albert Serra on the interrelationship between television and cinema, and who also presents a hitherto unpublished mini-series filmed in the MACBA.
Son[i]a speaks with Chus Martínez about the exhibition.
Transcript
Transcript of TV ON THE RADIO #2, curated by Kenneth Goldsmith.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Martha Rosler that we were unable to include the first time around.
Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler analyses and questions the proliferation of surveillance systems and self-representations in contemporary society, while telling us about artistic circles in the seventies, the seminal video art scene, and the need to keep chasing utopias.
Variations for another dramatic piece
Presented in the galleries of the Museum on 23 February 2013 within the programme Experience MACBA, 'Cascando. Variations for another dramatic piece' is part of a radio play by Samuel Beckett, adapted and produced by Joan Morey.
Judith Barry
Judith Barry's installations can be considered to be an intersection of different disciplines (architecture, sculpture, film, video, performance) forged in the seventies when postmodern theories first arrived on the art scene. A substantial part of Barry's work, which is closely linked to feminism, revolves around issues of gender identity and the relationship between individuals and the urban environment.
Han Nefkens
Interview with Han Nefkens about art, writing, art collecting and patronage, on the occasion of the presentation of the Han Nefkens Foundation MACBA Award.
Transcript
Transcript of TV ON THE RADIO #1, curated by Kenneth Goldsmith.
In this show, we treat visual works as if they're audio and see what happens. In most cases, we discover that the sounds emanating from the visual works can stand on their own as great listening experiences.
When television collides with audio arts, a new and disconcerting soundtrack emerges, one that can only have been a product of artists swiping, sampling, détourning, recycling, remixing, and mashing-up sources emanating from the television. This show rescues ten works, inspired by and taken from TV.
Jef Cornelis
Jef Cornelis is one of the pioneers of research into the language of television and its relationship to video art, documentary and the reading of history from the present, and also of the analysis of what it means to make a film.
Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Bartomeu Marí and Joan Jonas speak about the exhibition "Joan Jonas. Timelines".