CONGLOMERATE TV  – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

In the U–jazdowski Cinema there will be the preview trailer of Block 4 produced by the Berlin art collective.

• CONGLOMERATE TV is a collaborative project presented in the form of a television network. The project is realized by a core team of five Berlin-based artists and filmmakers: Sol Calero, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Derek Howard, Christopher Kline, and Dafna Maimon. CONGLOMERATE TV and its members conceive, direct, and produce original programs. Their 30-minute “Blocks” are composed of recurring shows, ads, and one-off segments, while also including contributions from invited guest artists. A mishmash of genres and sources of inspiration are characteristic of CONGLOMERATE’s style. They pull references from the vernacular of TV history and utilize the model of a TV station in order to embrace collaboration, as well as to reconsider how exhibitions are viewed online. Filmed in original elaborate sets that are usually built within gallery contexts, the programs mix diverse content, merging melodrama, documentary, comedy, interview, music and art into a unified body. The videos are shown in the exhibition among the original sets, as well as broadcast on the web.