exhibition
ZAPPING: TELEVISION AS CULTURE AND COUNTERCULTURE explores media language through a comparison between the technological and cultural impact of television, particularly in ephemeral and scheduled broadcasting, and its reflection and instrumentalization as counterculture in artistic practices. This exhibition is structured around five themes: Frontier, Resolution, Reception, Color, and Memory. Each one assembles a field of critical and cultural broadcasts from RTP, aggregated through the transformations of interactions with the themes, and a counter-field of countercultural artistic work engaged with technology and the television experience.
Through a partnership, supported by RPAC, between the Oliva Art Center (São João da Madeira), gnration, the Center for Art and Architecture Affairs (Guimarães), and MACE (Elvas), this exhibition, which unfolds across the four spaces, presents a set of commissions to five artists: Ângela Ferreira, Antoni Muntadas, Mariana Vilanova, Nuno Nunes-Ferreira, and Rosa Baptista.
At gnration, the exhibition will also be accompanied by a series of “live interruptions,” four episodes of the Commented Viewing Cycle, which brings together artists and researchers to discuss the presence of television in culture and society. These sessions will take place on January 17, with Cândido Lima and Pedro Junqueira Maia (Music on television), February 21 with Joaquim Moreno (School on television), February 28 with Alexandra Areia (Architecture on television), and March 21 with Ana Biggote Vieira (Early childhood education on television).
curation
paula pinto (coordinator)
alexandra areia
joaquim moreno
vera carmo
supported by portuguese republic – culture, youth and sports / general direction of the arts. portuguese contemporary art network (rpac). rtcp – network of portuguese theaters and cinemas.
