Underground Networks

Artists' Television in New York City
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-520-40223-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 228 mm x 151 mm, Gewicht: 462 g

New York City’s downtown scene of the 1970s and 1980s is synonymous with underground film, video, and performance art. Many of the artists who would come to define this period also dabbled in the then-new technology of public access cable television, as host, producer, guest, or studio audience member. Drawing on archival research and personal interviews, this book—the first full-length study of this vibrant body of work—explores how poets, painters, and filmmakers produced talk shows and soap operas that warped the heteronormative conventions of primetime fare. Working outside the established art world, artists screened their shows in lofts and nightclubs, airing them live on Manhattan Cable and provoking frequent tabloid censure. Underground Networks affirms the importance of cable television to the downtown art scene and recovers an essential strand of avant-garde screen culture and a user-driven media ecology with uncanny contemporary resonance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olin, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Tuning In to Artists’ Television1. Lights Out: Anton Perich Presents and the Dragging of Primetime2. New York School Dropouts: Public Access Poetry3. Wiring the Scene: TV Party4. Colab-TV: Networking the Art Collective5. Downtown Goes Up: The Willoughby Sharp ShowAfterword: Myth LabNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin Olin is Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Shue Yan University, where he teaches literary, film, and cultural studies. His writing has appeared in Art Journal, Framework, and Millennium Film Journal.