<b>Transcript of TV ON THE RADIO #2 (a podcast by Kenneth Goldsmith) now available as a PDF</b><br>
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This
is the second podcast that accompanies MACBA's exhibition "Are You
Ready for TV?" In the Museum, you can see what happens when the
aesthetic of visual artists collides with the world of television. The
results are anything but what you'd expect to see on TV, full of
surrealistic interventions and disruptions. Or when artists work on
television, there is often an embedded critique of the medium, something
that questions the very essence of what our eyeballs are glued to every
night. As curator Chus Martínez writes about this show: 'This is not an
exhibition about television, but one conceived from the place of
television. Its aim: to study how the diverse ways of grasping images
and the life of concepts contribute to tracing the horizon of our
cultural present.'<br>
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In our first podcast, we examined what happened when audio artists
used the sounds of television as a source for the audio works. The
results – demonstrated to us by everyone from John Cage to the Evolution
Control Committee – were rich and varied. For this podcast, we actually
listen to the soundtracks from the videos in the show themselves. In
essence, we treat the visual works as if they're audio and see what
happens. In most cases, we discover that the sounds emanating from the
visual works can stand on their own as great listening experiences. In
other works, the visuals and sounds are deliberately 'uninteresting,'
tending to highlight the mundane or the insignificant experiences of
life, which of course, are equally rich in an inverted sort of way.
Although there are hundreds of works in the actual exhibition, we've
selected ten to spotlight here that are particularly varied and
interesting and which, taken as a whole, can provide you with the flavor
of MACBA's exhibition, "Are You Ready for TV?".<br>
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