Vostell manipulated a television to distort news footage of the Vietnam War and recorded the intervention using Super 8 film. In this key example of his practice of “TV-dé-coll/age,” the artist addresses the hyper-saturated media landscape and our increasing desensitization to distant atrocities.
Wolf Vostell
Director
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