+/- TV is an experimental, multi-disciplinary, prospective workshop, coordinated by Franck Larcade and Alexis Vaillant. It offers young artists an opportunity to develop new projects related to the media and mechanisms of dissemination, and television in particular.

It is well-known that economic logic and the media shape representations of the real and that concepts like in situ and “broad context", first raised in the 1970s, now form an integral part of artistic practise. As a result, some artists are now negotiate the emergence, positioning and circulation of their work with certain institutions (companies, press groups, institutions, broadcasters) whose mechanisms govern social behaviour, structure the organisation of information and set the dominant economic and political procedures in society. The artists' work becomes part of the institutions and thus, paradoxically, is more widely seen but yet less visible, since the limits that aid identification become blurred. When, where and how can such projects exist? The +/- TV workshop will try to evaluate some of the contemporary challenges inherent to these issues.

The workshop deliberately avoids tackling the question of video art, which, in order to make itself visible, establishes its means of dissemination in terms of the medium and not the structure. The place of the art video is therefore the television set and not television.

Participants: Bertrand Schefer (philosopher); Manuel Huerga (head of Barcelona Television); Close Huyghe (artist); Dan Graham (artist); Matthieu Laurette (artist); Marcelo Expósito (artist); Jean Christophe Royoux (art critic) and Carles Ameller (lecturer at the School of Fine Arts, Bilbao).

Produced by Arteleku.