7 May 1993, mobile television station in the van. five monitors, one videoprojection. two mobile television cameras. audio equipment .

He demonstrated to the highly sophisticated public at the Centre of Contemporary Art the practical mechanism of manipulating minds by the mass media. In cooperation with the TV Gallery he organized direct transmission to the monitors installed in the exhibition rooms. The programme imitated the usual run: commercials, news (of art scene, touching on many of those present), and direct reporting of events from the spot. When the initial sceptical attitude of the snobbish public was placated by making them feel important, they were "had" with a wily trick: they had seen in one of the rooms a large double bed which seemed to have little to do with the rest of the show; now in one of the "direct" transmissions they saw on the monitor screens a naked girl lolling on that bed. It didn▓t affect those who happened to be in the room with the bed which was empty as before (the videotape with the girl had been shot in advance), but the rest rushed back to see the real thing, so fudged they were with the fake "documentary" air of reporting.

April 1993. tv gallery



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