Category: Season #1 (1992)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcieFjWP3_s Autofocus on health and the body. Pathology of the discovery of a large intestinal worm. Reflection on the illness called “menstruation.” Talking with the dead. Bladder control and French Toast with a degenerative nerve disease. Macro closeup on recovery from brain surgery.Finding a dentist when you’re HIV positive. Segment Video Artist Collaborator Role Smash…

– mature content Termites ponder the idea of “taboo” across a continuum ranging from venial sin, differing standards of physical hygiene, dominant/submissive relationships and, yes, gay sexuality and masturbation. Shame! Segment Video Artist Collaborator Role Pipa Doody in her Panties Meryl Perlson Philipa Hernandez interview Smash TV Open ECU Vibrator Meryl Perlson who among us…

featuring guest hosts Connie Coleman & Alan Powell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urGcOSZielg Join the Termite TV Collective as we ponder Art in theSeventies. Willoughby Sharp’s 1975 performance art piece Cough Up shares screen space with “live” commentary by video artists Connie Coleman and Alan Powell. A profound conceptual statement about spectacle in the information age *or* an idiot…

THIS IS ONLY A TEST’s most controversial show provides a Theory of Everything linking the Kennedy Assassination to the texture of day-old Wonder Bread, Automatic Teller Machines, birth control, disturbed loners, and pussycats. A high priest of conspiracy theology outlines strategies of resistance. Segment Video Artist Collaborator Role Kennedy Assassination over+over Jim Ospenson William Cooper Video…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMUfwaa1LhQ “A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it moves always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not leaves nothing in its path but the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.” – Manny Farber, 1962 This fluid amalgam of shorts questions the tension between the natural, non-human world and our innate drive…

Sugar and spice and testosterone and reproductive states of emergency… Termite TV plays doctor with contemporary notions of male and female, and explores constructs like fashion, fishing and feminism. Androgenous babies and obsolete men are just two of the possibilities raised in this show, which poses a final dilemma : are women’s bikes really liberating?…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spFBO9LPvBM Follow “Only a Test” as we go undercover to a meeting of Victoria’s Secret addicts, to discover if feminism and lingerie are really compatible. This half-hour will reveal the true connection between mall grazing and hunting/gathering, and leak the secret about the color of colas. How much does watching TV really cost? Segment Video…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9vFqLkraAc Hear the true confessions of a producer as he makes a sacrificial offer to St. Clare, patroness saint of television. Bow your head to the gleaming giants at the Manayunk antenna farm. Figure out how much it costs to watch your favorite programs. Learn how to change the channel. How many hours of television do…

Segment Video Artist Collaborator Role TV Reverse Open       Poster Reverse       TV War Meryl Perlson     Desert Storm My War Jim Ospenson     CNN Logos Michael Kuetemeyer     Information is obsolete text Michael Kuetemeyer     Peace is everyone’s Goal Michael Kuetemeyer     Art of Misdirection…