IN BETWEEN THE DARK AND THE LIGHT (Television/Society/Art: A Symposium)
This week, the editors revisit writer-artist Constance DeJong’s “In Between the Dark and the Light,” a piece published in January 1981 on “Television/Society/Art,” a symposium held at the Kitchen in New York City the prior autumn. DeJong’s Reader (Primary Information), an anthology of eighteen texts including out-of-print and unpublished works, is in bookstores now.Before the internet, television was of course the messiah-bogeyman of consequence, promising liberation via the democratic dissemination of information as it reinforced mass psychology and mores. With the participation ...
Source: artforum.com