TV Museum

“Connolly undertakes a compelling and exhaustive study of the ways in which contemporary artists are reimagining TV now that it has lost its central position in the arena of mainstream entertainment culture and its products have been remediated across diverse platforms, on and offline. She makes a compelling case for the repurposing or cross-purposing of professional television studios and galleries. . . . Connolly gives us hope that the ‘televisual turn’ and the artists she has championed so convincingly in this book, will help to bring what is now a quotidian cultural form back into critical focus.”

“By linking television and the museum [Connolly] charts a history of contemporary art’s increasingly enamored incorporations of television, revealing the laziness of a hastily applied high/low cultural dichotomy. Harnessing the comparative brevity of this relationship . . . ‘televisual distance,’ or an outsider’s perspective, provides a tool to examine the museum’s operations from a new and revelatory perspective. . . . Presenting a dynamic portrait of the formal and institutional intersections between television and the museum, TV Museum serves as a call for sharper and deeper considerations of this knotty relationship and a nascent warning about the impact of depoliticizing the public sphere.”