Critical Writing Index

The End of Television

by Steven Ball

Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), 2013, v. 2, no. 1, pp. 133-139

Steven Ball reviews the exhibition of the artist David Hall at Ambika P3 in London. Ball argues that Hall's 1001 TV Sets (End Piece) not only creates a spectacle of analogue television industrial space, but also foretells that the expanded social space, which television has generated, has migrated onto the network and interacted with a multiplicity of screen-based media. Ball also criticizes the representation of Hall's landmark TV Interruptions in a gallery space, where the work's time-and-site specificity is stripped off and its original purpose to bring art away from elitist institutions is muddled.

ITEM 2013.158 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Progressive RecessionDavid Hall

The Video ShowDavid Hall

Going Around the Corner PieceBruce Nauman

TV InterruptionsDavid Hall

Tap PieceDavid Hall

Window PieceDavid Hall

Interruption PieceDavid Hall

Two Figures PieceDavid Hall

Eleventh HourChannel 4

Ghosts in the MachineChannel 4

1001 TV Sets (End Piece)David Hall

60 TV SetsDavid Hall

101 TV SetsDavid Hall

Stooky Bill TVDavid Hall

This is a TV ReceiverDavid Hall

Barbara Steveni

John Latham

Artists' Placement Group

Nam June Paik