AV on Tour:
Audio Visual Arts North East is pleased to announce the opening of Broadcast Yourself at Cornerhouse, Manchester - a major touring exhibition which premiered at Hatton Gallery, Newcastle as part of AV Festival 08: Broadcast. The exhibition, which explores artists' interventions into television and strategies for self broadcasting from the 1970's to the present day, will be on display at Cornerhouse from 13 June to 10 August 2008. An opening reception will be held from 18:00 - 21:00 on Thu 12 June and a discussion event with Co-Curator Kathy Rae Huffman and participating artists & guests will also take place from 14:00 - 16:00 on Sat 14 June. Both events are free and all are welcome.
Broadcast Yourself is a touring exhibition produced by AV Festival 08 and Cornerhouse in collaboration with Hatton Gallery. Supported by Arts Council England, CRUMB at the University of Sunderland, and The Leverhulme Trust (Early Career Fellowship).
Broadcast Yourself
Artists' interventions into television and strategies for self-broadcasting
Cornerhouse, Manchester
Fri 13 June - Sun 10 August
Preview: Thu 12 June 6 - 9pm; FREE, All Welcome
www.cornerhouse.org/broadcastyourself
www.broadcastyourself.net
Artists and projects: Active Ingredient (Rachel Jacobs/Matt Watkins); Shaina Anand; Ian Breakwell; Chris Burden; Stan Douglas; Alistair Gentry; Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Adriene Jenik; Doug Hall, Chip Lord and Jody Procter; Joanie 4 Jackie (Miranda July et al.); Pat Naldi and Wendy Kirkup; TV swansong (curated by Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie); Bill Viola; Van Gogh TV; 56KTV Bastard Channel (curated by Reinhard Storz/xcult.org). Curated by Sarah E. Cook and Kathy Rae Huffman
Broadcast Yourself is a group exhibition that contextualises the current trend for sharing videos online through the presentation of artists' video and TV from the 1970s,'80s and '90s and more current web-based TV art. The exhibition reveals how artists have questioned the passive relationship viewers have with television by taking control of TV and the way it is both produced and consumed, challenging its cultural influence and exploring what it means to put oneself 'on-air'.
The exhibition includes: collaborative projects from 56kTV and TV swansong which demonstrate how the development of the internet and affordable web cameras gave artists the chance to create their own broadcast networks; individual broadcasts of alternative news, like Guillermo Gómez-Peña's guerilla webcast performances El Naftazteca: Cyber-Aztec TV in 1995, and Alistair Gentry's 'landing' on Mars a decade later; Active Ingredient's MakeTV installation which allows audiences to be interviewed and streamed live online as though they were a celebrity; Shaina Anand's CCTV projects in India which demonstrate how artists continue to create their own systems to contest the fact that they have limited access to the technologies needed for television broadcast.
All the works in this exhibition revise our perceptions of broadcast television (from reality TV and soap operas, to the news and commercial breaks) while at the same time questioning our role in the creation of television culture. How we individually understand television will continue to change as new digital technologies expand the distribution of audio/video work on the web. But, as the artists in this exhibition have demonstrated, it is possible for us all now to broadcast ourselves.
Related events at Cornerhouse and online content:Events
Screen Test Panel Discussion
Sat 14 June, 2.00 - 4.00pm
Broadcast Yourself co-curator Kathy Rae Huffman, artists Benjamin Heidersberger (Van Gogh TV), Alistair Gentry, and producer Anna Ridley will discuss methods of dissemination for media art, including television, public spaces, urban screens, and the internet. The conversation will reference a range of artworks from the exhibition Broadcast Yourself. This discussion will also look at the progression from early experiments in art broadcasting to online and interactive forums and how have they influenced the exhibition of media art in galleries. This event will be available to view online.
Free. Gallery 3
Exhibition Tour
Thu 19 June, 6.00pm
Join Kathy Rae Huffman, Cornerhouse's Visual Arts Director and co-curator of Broadcast Yourself, and Chris Clarke, Cornerhouse's Visual Arts Education Officer for an introductory exhibition tour.
Free
Exhibition Tour (BSL interpreted)
Sun 13 July, 5.00pm
Join Chris Clarke, Cornerhouse's Visual Arts Education Officer for an introductory exhibition tour. The tour will be BSL interpreted by Siobhan Rocks.
Free
Special Screening:Special Screening:
El Naftazteca: Cyber Aztec TV for 2000
AD and An American Family Revisited:
The Louds 10 Years Later
Sat 9 August, 1.30pm
This double feature screening accompanying Broadcast Yourself presents two short films: Guillermo Gómez-Peña's El Naftazteca (1995, 58 mins, Dir: Adriene Jenik) is an online performance intervention, with the artist adopting the persona of a Chicano-Aztec VJ to elaborate the complications of American identity. An American Family Revisited (1983, 59 mins. Dir: Alan and Susan Raymond) is a ten-year update on the Loud family and their reflections on becoming the first reality TV stars.The screening will be introduced by exhibition co-curators Sarah Cook and Kathy Rae Huffman.
£4.60 full / £3.30 concs. Cinema 3
Online Content (available from 16 June)
Podcast: Van Gogh TV
Benjamin Heidersberger, Mike Hentz and Salvatore Vanasco (with Karel Dudesek and others) created the artists' media group Van Gogh TV in 1986, evolving out of Ponton European Media Art Lab and their experiments in mobile pirate TV broadcasts. Working between high tech prototypes and off-the-shelf consumer products, Van Gogh TV has encouraged participants to create the content of the work. This podcast conversation discusses their experiences in using mass media technology to create interactive communication projects for both television and Internet.
www.cornerhouse.org/broadcastyourself
Video Interview: Active Ingredient
Active Ingredient is an artist led company that specialise in interactive media. Their innovative approach to new technologies has led them to national and international acclaim, creating innovative projects that merge location, social networking, bio-sensing and play. In 2000 they set up Moon Radio webTV, an artist-led live broadcast channel and in 2005 they set up MakeTV, merging producers and audiences. For this online interview Active Ingredient will discuss their research into new uses of interactive video on mobile devices, the internet, and video in performance.
www.cornerhouse.org/broadcastyourself