Shut the Fuck Up
1985, 14:00 minutes, colour, English
TAPECODE 123.11
In this tape General Idea examine the relationship between the mass media and the artist. They incorporate segments from television and film, along with their own commentary to humourously point out the media's insistence that it is gossip and spectacle that make vivid humour inherent in media art conceits and seek to change the industry's conventional description of artists as a passive yet cleverly deceitful, alienated cult of the imbecile.
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