‘Wonder Woman’ (1978) by Dara Birnbaum.
In ‘Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman’ Dara Birnbaum uses images of Wonder Woman to subvert the ideology and meaning embedded in this popular 70’s television series.
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Eugenie Scrase
‘Trunkated trunk’ (2009) by Eugenie Scrase.
Eugenie Scrase found this fallen treetrunk while out walking in east London and asked the owner if she could remove that section of the fence.
With this work she won the BBC TV-show ‘School of Saatchi‘ in 2009.
General Idea
‘Shut the fuck up’ part I (Death of a Mauve Bat) & part II (Mondo Cane)
‘Shut the fuck up’ part III (Blue) by General Idea.
General Idea was a collective of three artists, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson, that existed from 1969 – 1994. General Idea’s work inhabited and subverted forms of popular and media culture, including beauty pageants, boutiques, television talk shows, trade fair pavilions and mass media. From 1987 through 1994 their work addressed the AIDS crisis. Both Zontal and Partz died of AIDS in 1994.
(via De Ondergrond)
Danh Vo
Danh Vo, ‘Oma Totem’ (2009)
Totem of objects that Vo’s grandmother, Nguyen Thi Ty, received from The Immigrant Relief Program and The Catholic Church upon arriving in Denmark as a refugee: – 1 Phillips 26 inch TV – 1 Gorenje washing machine – 1 Bomann refrigerator – 1 wooden crucifix – 1 personalized entrance card for a casino
Frank Zappa plays the bicycle
Frank Zappa plays the bicycle. His TV debut on the Steve Allen show (1963).
See the entire clip here:
Kelly Mark
‘Glow House’ (2005) by Kelly Mark
One House & 40-50 television sets distributed throughout and all tuned to the same channel.
Christoph Schlingensief
Christoph Schlingensief, ‘The last supper’
‘Little shrine’
The trailer of a documentary on Schlingensief’s action ‘Auslaender raus!’
Christoph Schlingensief died last Saturday, the 21st of August, at the age of 49.
Watch the documentary “Deutschland, deine Kuenstler: Christoph Schlingensief” below.
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