| | Media Art Net | Douglas, Stan: Television Spots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16) |
 | | Produced between 1987 and 1988, the «Television Spots» are exactly what they claim to be: these twelve, short video sequences were originally planned as inserts within the regular advertisements on Canada’s private television network. |
 | | Yet their content, the dramaturgy of the action, and what’s depicted, run contrary to the usual expectations of viewers; they undermine the usual construction of their needs; in doing so, the [representation of the] public’s identity is shown in the end as a greatness defined purely though the medium. |
 | | The «Television Spots» appear as ‹narrative› fragments spontaneously readable and formally easy to identify but their imagery shows ‹empty places›: interchangeable performance locations, urban areas lacking any dramatic or narrative value—as everyday and banal as the ‹action› or the ‹events,› images normally left out between edited shots. |
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