The Television

Creator:

Atherton, Kevin

Contributor(s):

David Garcia

This work is part of the rewind archive.

Duration: 3m 33s - Amsterdam4m 5s - ICA2m 30s - LVA17m 25s - Glasgow

Year: 1985-86, 2010
Original formats:
3/4" U-Matic Lo Band
Type of work:
Performance & Installation

Funding source: Self

First exhibited: ICA London 1985

ACGB programme for Video Artists on Tour; 1985 pdf here.

‘Starting from Scratch’, an article on Transmission Gallery’s ‘Glasgow Events Space’ by Graham Caldwell for The LIST, February 1986, includes information on Atherton’s ‘Death In Glasgow’.pdf here

Advert for Kevin Athertonís The Television-Live from Glasgow 1986. pdf here

Directory, The television-live from Glasgow 1986. pdf here
ACGB programme for Video Artists on Tour

On the Media: Selection by Sean Cubitt for Screen

Directory, The television-live from Glasgow

Image of The Television Interviewed, with Deborah Schneider, “Scanners” Air Gallery London 1986. Taken from catalogue to accompany exhibition Kevin Atherton: Three Decades, Three Works.

Image of The Television Interviewed, with David Gargia “Talking Back to the Media” TIme Based Arts Amsterdam 1986. Taken from catalogue to accompany exhibition Kevin Atherton: Three Decades, Three Works.

Video still from Kevin Atherton’s ‘The Television Interviewed’, Glasgow, 1985-86

Stills from The Television

‘Channel 6: A FRAME OF REFERENCE’ by Jeremy Welsh