America Strikes Back

Using Richard Serra and Carlotta Schoolman’s 1973 video work ‘Television Delivers People’ as a template, ‘America Strikes Back’ explores the power of entertainment. An actor jovialiy reports a seamless flow of information while scrolling white text over a blue screen background both condenses and shifts the emphasis of what is being said. Over the original muzak soundtrack of ‘Television Delivers People’ subjects such as Harald Szeemann, chronicles of the abject, self mutilation, copyright protection and The Bible are all made equivalent in this examination of the relationship between art, media and the flow of info-tainment.