{"id":7727,"date":"2012-03-20T12:11:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T12:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=7727"},"modified":"2012-03-25T14:33:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T13:33:19","slug":"1001-tv-sets-slowly-tune-into-white-noise-david-hall-ambika-p3-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/1001-tv-sets-slowly-tune-into-white-noise-david-hall-ambika-p3-london\/","title":{"rendered":"1001 TV sets slowly tune into white noise, David Hall, Ambika P3, London"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Entitled \u00a0‘1001 TV Sets (End Piece)’, 1972-2012,’ this work by video art pioneer David Hall\u00a0at London’s Ambika P3\u00a0features over 1,000 TV sets, all tuned to random terrestrial\u00a0stations.<\/p>\n

It proved to be an unexpectedly fantastic experience and it’s already on my “must come back” list.<\/p>\n

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Arriving at the \u00a0cavernous underground building, you’re greeted by a full-on assault on your senses, with the hall echoing to\u00a0a cacophony of TV sets, all blasting out different stations.<\/p>\n

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The piece was commissioned to coincide with the end of analogue TV in the UK on April 18, and\u00a0as the signals are turned off between April 4-14th, the sound will gradually change from live transmissions to the\u00a0eerie\u00a0hiss of white noise.<\/p>\n

(Note to the more literal readers: this isn’t an exact and precise diagrammatic representation of the state of analogue transmission in the UK. It’s an art piece interpreting and visualising the process of the nationwide analogue switch off.)<\/p>\n

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We were lucky to arrive at a\u00a0particularly\u00a0good time: Liverpool were playing Stoke, so the fans’ chanting was\u00a0mixing\u00a0in with the religious\u00a0exhalations\u00a0of a congregation on BBC’s Hymns of \u00a0‘Songs Of Praise.’ It made for a wonderful<\/em> juxtaposition.<\/p>\n

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The room is more or less pitch black, with only the shifting glow of the TV sets illuminating the concrete walls.<\/p>\n

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There’s TVs everywhere in the main hall, so you can’t escape the noise.<\/p>\n

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I loved this piece. The cameras and screens were set up so that you’d appear in places you wouldn’t expect.<\/p>\n

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Back in the main hall looking down at the hundreds of TV sets.<\/p>\n

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The sets were imaginatively connected by an overhead loom.<\/p>\n

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I also shot two rather wobbly videos which I hope will give you some idea of what to expect (see below).<\/p>\n

This is\u00a0definitely\u00a0an exhibition to come back to, and I’m looking forward to visiting towards the end of April when most of the TVs will have turned to white noise. \u00a0I loved it!<\/p>\n

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Info:<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Hall: End Piece is on at\u00a0Ambika P3<\/a>, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS until 22 April. Entrance is free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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