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Jonathan Horowitz

Art Delivers People, 2010

single channel video for flat-panel display
duration 6:53
edition of 5 + 2 artist’s proofs

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Art Delivers people is a parody of Richard Serra and Carlota Schoolman’s seminal work of video art, Television Delivers People. In Serra and Schoolman’s work, television is portrayed as an instrument of corporate control, antithetical to art. In Art Delivers People, television and art are both identified as tools to preserve the status quo. In Horowitz’s work, the scrolling text mimics that of the original, with the substitution of the word “art” for “television” and other consequent changes. The Muzak soundtrack that Serra and Schoolman use is replaced with organ music by Philip Glass.


Exhibitions

  • Minimalist Works from the Holocaust Museum, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK, 2010
  • Art, History, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK, 2011
  • Occupy Greenwich, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, CT, USA, 2016