Test Tube
Produced by De Appel, Amsterdam, while General Idea was in residence there, Test Tube was conceived as a program for television. Presented under the brand "The Color Bar Lounge," a cocktail bar in the mythical 1984 Miss General Idea Pavilion, the program is a hybrid of popular television formats […] and infomercial. […] Advertisements for the bar are placed throughout the program; a loaded word choice, full of double-entendres and innuendo, betrays the influence of both Dadaism and consumerism. This collapse of popular and high culture is central to General Idea's agenda, as Felix Partz observes: "You know, the mass media are like a vast pharmaceutical complex developing new cultural elixirs of an unprecedented intoxication…but art remains a curious and elitist drink. Despite its unique flavor and heady cultural properties, it has never effectively been exploited."
Year: 1979
Genre: TV Movie
Studio: De Appel
Director: General Idea
Cast: AA Bronson, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal, Marina Abramović, Titus Muizelaar, Wies Smals
Crew: General Idea (Writer), General Idea (Director), Frits Oostvogel (Camera Operator)
Runtime: 28 minutes
Release: Jan 01, 1979
IMDb: 0.00/10 by 0 users
Popularity: 0
Country: Netherlands
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : art
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