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This Is Television

Judy Radul - This Is Television
This Is Television addresses the increasingly obsolete medium of television by way of the medium of the book, commenting on media's continuous changes of form and format. Through an interplay of theory and artistic research material, the book extends Judy Radul's ongoing investigation of media with an idiosyncratic perspective on television—while still feeding off collective experience. The book thematizes television as a cultural container, both in its format as a box for content and as an ideologically saturated apparatus for reception.
With sections titled Craig, Oral History, Moon, Display, Landing, End of Analog etc., the book charts our identification with specific media and a nostalgia connected with the obsolescence of technology. Springing from a desire to engage intermedia form by way of a book about television, and to commit to the ambiguity of its title's announcement, This Is Television is organized around three central chapters: “This,” “Is,” and “Television” are individually interpreted in newly commissioned essays by Honor Gavin, Ana Teixeira Pinto, and Diedrich Diederichsen, with additional short texts by Judy Radul.
Over the years, the interdisciplinary Canadian artist Judy Radul (born 1962, in Lillooet, lives in Vancouver) has primarily worked with video and film installation. Most recently, her video installations focus on questioning the “habits” of perception, blurring the boundaries between theater, performance, and film.
Edited by DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Ariane Beyn, Judy Radul.
Texts by Diedrich Diederichsen, Honor Gavin, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Judy Radul.

Graphic design: Katja Gretzinger.
 
published in March 2019
English edition
21,5 x 28 cm (broché)
240 pages (5 b/w and 103 color ill.)
 
26.00
 
ISBN : 978-3-95679-446-9
EAN : 9783956794469
 
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