Radiator

For my unit 6 assessment, I am going to show a piece called radiator. It will be a wall mounted flat screen displaying a single shot of a radiator, parodying a dvd fireplace. I am looking at the kitsch aspects of such products of the dvd fireplace but there are also references to the placebo effect of consumer culture.


Jan Dibbett created a work called 'TV as a fireplace' in 1969 as part of a german television broadcast which is similar to the fireplace dvd on a visual level, but theoretically the piece was about television as a collective experience, uniting the viewers, an idea that was much more relevant at its time due to technological circumstances.