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"As early as 1971 Halász was already disembowelling the TV set with a powerful gesture of media criticism. The set is reduced to a bare shell but is still recognisable as a TV, and Halász places burning candles in it and records on moving and still images the state of the candles as they burn down. The act of lighting the candles is the elevation of an ordinary everyday situation, a classic Fluxus event. By opening up an everyday object, Halász initiated a new type of communicational relationship between the agent, the object and the act itself. From here, it is only a small step for Halász to replace the object with himself. During his one-man revolution against his own practice of watching television, in Private Transmission (1975) the artist is simultaneously the performer, the model and the subject of the programme.7 He demonstrates with minimal, Dadaist-like movements what can be done with the outer shell of a television: you can, for example, sit on it, settle into the foetal position, go to sleep, look out of it helplessly, or be bored. In order to relieve the discomfort virtually, Halász extends the TV’s repertoire by positioning mirrors set at right angles to each other and slanted at various angles in place of the screen. Only the image of the artist photographing himself appears on this enlarged projection surface, as he uses his own body to construct endless variations in living geometry." (Source, pdf, Vintage.hu)

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