1275 Minnesota St /
Casemore Kirkeby
Lindsey White: How to Get on Cable Television
Opening Reception: September 17, 5-8 pm PT
How to Get on Cable Television concerns aspiration and antiquation, art and entertainment, and mediated experience on a screen-heavy Earth. It is comprised of all new photographs and sculptures informed by White’s ongoing research into the professional and amateur worlds of magic and comedy. In the artist’s hands, props, stages, jokes, and gestures are ripe for investigation, especially in relation to gender and power dynamics. Based on hundreds of original negative scans from the American Museum of Magic, and for the first time, White re-tools archival photographs to interrogate the way history is tended to and manipulated. How to Get on Cable Television places viewers in the center of the deconstructed action, a sleight-of-hand celebrating both process and product, surprise and reveal.
Contents include: Naysaying Squirrels / Tank O’Brains / Crow, Fly, Hairbrush / A Peek Down Her Shirt! / Hollywood Stunts / Buckets of Rain / Fan-girl Dreams / A Log’s Message / How to Kill an Association in 13 Easy Steps / The Lever / Bozo’s Grand Prize Game / Brick Wall Front Desk / The Devil’s Rope / Phyllis Diller’s Broken Arm / Toe Characters / Birds on the Mic