1265 Griswold Detroit - My Loft
Detroit, Michigan US 01/31/1998

A show based on Jerry Mander's book, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, 1977.

Ten interactive sets were created that emphasized certain parts in his book:
(1) TV Living Room - video of a woman's journal (fictional) regarding her passive/apathetic TV behavior
(2) Art Theatre - 16mm film - better things to do than watch TV
(3) Product/Garbage - 16mm film displaying subliminal commercials
(4) Nature - mediated enviroment back to nature
(5) Capture Image - various types of media capturing tools like cameras, computers, etc.
(6) Edit Image - same film from set #2 only edited differently
(7) Alpha States - the state one is in when watching TV
(8) Manipulated Image - video of a woman's journal (fictional) regarding her parents arguing, manipulated into an experimental music video
(9) Living room - without TV
(10) Playroom - returning to the spirit of childhood imagination.

There were also semi-nude poet performance artists who casually strolled around the sets silently or reciting poems and sometimes interacted with the spectators.

Note 1: This was another one of my involved Detroit shows, so more details to come...

Conception, direction, production, promotion, video & film editing & effects, graphism, etc.: Julie Meitz
Semi-nude poet performance artists: Sky & Lester
Artwork in adjacent rooms by: Carrie Wolocko
Special thanks to Philippe Beillas for designing a better film projector loop! :-)

Tools & Equipment: VCR Linear editing, 16mm film camera, 2 16mm looped film projectors, 1 16mm film editor, Sony 8mm video camera, 2 Tvs & Vcrs

Note 2: The video of T.V. or Sex? was shown at the Central Florida Film Festival, 1998; Jerry Mander's was a guest speaker at the festival that year. Film Program Excerpt & article about it here: TV Stench