PTV: Performance TV – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

27/10/2017

• Marie de Brugerolle

  • TV as a Melting Pot

    • Performative lecture with screenings

      • How has television been a model for certain artists, or a frame and a field of experience? Addressing television and its modalities of appearance, and the iconic and post-medium qualities developed in artists such as Guy de Cointet, Andy Warhol, and Wolfgang Stoerchle’s research, we will investigate how it became a source and a goal through the aspects of ritual, icon, and sets.

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• Oreet Ashery
  • Screening a few chapters of the web series Revisiting Genesis
  • Discussion in Death Café format

    • Revisiting Genesis takes the form of an artist web series in twelve episodes, written and directed by Oreet Ashery. The work brings together real life conversations with people who have life-limiting conditions, such as cancer and Cystic fibrosis, and the fictional account of Genesis, an artist who is slowly vanishing. Revisiting Genesis, both melancholic and humorous, follows two nurses named Jackie, who assist people actively preparing for death to create biographical slideshows. The slideshows are used as a narrative device for reflection on longevity, feminist reincarnations, personal and socio-political loss, and the emerging death industries such as those providing digital legacy and afterlife services; including digital wills, digital assets management, and AR activated gravestones and avatars. Revisiting Genesis was made in consultation with palliative care professionals and online death experts.
      The performance by Oreet Ashery is based on the Death Café format, which is an open source non-expert space to discuss issues related to death. Death Café is a “social franchise.” It is a group-directed discussion of death with no agenda or specific objectives. It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counseling session. At a Death Café people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea, and discuss death. Death Cafés have spread quickly across Europe, North America, and Australasia. The model was developed by Jon Underwood and Sue Barsky Reid, and based on the ideas of Bernard Crettaz.

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• Dominika Olszowy
  • Performance TV
  • Performative online TV

    • Performance TV is based on setting up performative online TV and making a three-part video series. The video episodes will take the form of small-format television, and include a chat show with invited studio guests, on-camera performances by invited artists, poetry reading, animation and reports from art events that are currently taking place in Warsaw. Each of the episodes will be themed on a different topic. Performance TV is live TV; it is intuitive and unconstrained by any self-imposed framework.

    • PTV Channel on YouTube.

• CONGLOMERATE TV

  • Block 4: trailer at U–jazdowski cinema

    • 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.