DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Programme is 50
To mark the 50th anniversary of the DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Programme this year, we have invited a number of artists who have been guests of the DAAD to choose an image from their time in Berlin and explain it's significance to them. Canadian artist Judy Radul starts us off.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Programme this year, we have invited a number of artists who have been guests of the DAAD to choose an image from their time in Berlin and explain it's significance to them. Canadian artist Judy Radul starts us off.
I was thinking about Television and what it may have been. Television became conjoined with the moon in my mind. One watches the moon and it looks back with its light-reflecting face. I thought, before there was TV, before artists, utopianists, and mass marketers could imagine people around the globe watching the same broadcast, those people were looking at the moon. I didn’t know then that Nam June Paik had made a work called The Moon is the Oldest TV in 1965. But when I found out, it made perfect sense. This is an image from my new short film entitled This is Television. It is the full moon as seen from Teufelsberg, the former spy-station-rubble-mountain at the edge of the Grünewald in Berlin.
