The Medium is the Message: Television Now & Then

Gus Fisher Gallery, August 1 - December 12, 2020

“Dead Band is a newly conceived artwork that connects with the historic Radio 1YA mast atop the Gus Fisher Gallery Building. Through a live signal made visible through multiple television screens in the gallery, the mast is intimated into the space fifty-nine years after radio broadcasting ended at Shortland Street Studios. The historic red and white radio tower gathers junk signals in the obsolete television spectrum, eavesdropping on networks such as wireless local area networks, mobile phones, and atmospheric noise. Now surrounded by skyscrapers in the heart of Auckland’s central business district, the building’s original function lays dormant. In Dead Band, the building’s broadcasting activity as former radio and television studios is re-purposed and overwritten through this installation with a new form of agency.” - Gus Fisher Gallery

Dead Band was conceived and installed in collaboration with Peter Cleveland.