The End of Television
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 Recession – David Hall
The Video Show – David Hall
Going Around the Corner Piece – Bruce Nauman
TV Interruptions – David Hall
Tap Piece – David Hall
Window Piece – David Hall
Interruption Piece – David Hall
Two Figures Piece – David Hall
Eleventh Hour – Channel 4
Ghosts in the Machine – Channel 4
1001 TV Sets (End Piece) – David Hall
60 TV Sets – David Hall
101 TV Sets – David Hall
Stooky Bill TV – David Hall
This is a TV Receiver – David Hall
Barbara Steveni
John Latham
Artists' Placement Group
Nam June Paik