101 TV Sets
- Date of creation : 1975
- Country : United Kingdom
- Artists - Authors : Tony Sinden, David Hall
Description
"101 working TV's of various ages, models and shapes are installed in the main gallery, developing a media installation concept where the juxtaposition of everyday television programs and "live" broadcast material, set-up a shifting contextual relationship with the audience and location. " (Installation description, David Hall, Tony Sinden, 101 TV Sets, The Video Show, Serpentine Gallery, London, May 1 - 26, 1975.) (Source, pdf, Rewind)
Additional Informations
"Requirements: 101 old various sized working TV sets, builders' scaffolding."
"First shown as 60 TV Sets at the exhibition A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain, Gallery House, London 1972, and as 101 TV Sets at The Video Show, Serpentine Gallery, London 1975 (both made in collaboration with Tony Sinden) "
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View photographs of 101 TV Sets installation on Rewind's website
Presentation place
- The Video Show, Serpentine Gallery, Londres, 1 - 26 mai 1975.
- Type : installation
- Editor : Arts Council of Great Britain
- Place of production : Serpentine Gallery, Londres, Angleterre.
Publications and Periodicals which reference the work
- Tamara Krikorian, "Video Installations in Britain", London Video Arts Catalogue, 1984. (Source, pdf, Rewind)
- Julia Knight (ed.), Diverse practices: a critical reader on British video art, University of Luton Press, Luton, 1996.
- Joanna Heatwole, "Media of Now: an interview with David Hall", Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Volume 36, Aug/Sep published by the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York, 2008. (Source, pdf, Rewind)
- Stephen Partridge & Sean Cubitt (eds.), REWIND| British Artists' Video in the 1970s & 1980s, John Libbey Publishing, East barnet, Herts, 2012.