COLLECTION NAME:
Visiting Artist Lectures/Interviews
Record
Image Record ID:
aahi0008764
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Work Title (display):
What Follows Interview, Gala Committee
Image Title:
video
Work Description:
Interviewers: Casey McGuire and Lennon Michalski
Work Dates (display):
October 5, 2004
Work Dates type:
interview
Work Creator (display):
GALA Committee (American, 1995-1997)
Work Creator gender:
male and female
Work Creator notes (display):
A two-year, covert, collaborative, conceptual, public art project conducted on primetime television’s Melrose Place. Mel Chin initiated and formed the collective called the GALA Committee. // The southern California television studios have dramatically shaped the face of global cultural consumption and attitude through the embedded promotion of U.S. goods and lifestyles. The GALA Committee sought to work with commercial television by actively approaching it as a proper site in which to develop possibilities for education, to generate the transfer of information, and to layer narratives and poetic constructions. In the Name of the Place can be considered a blueprint for the development of the geography of culture on multiple levels.
____The GALA Committee, 1997 // Conceived as a viral, conceptual, public artwork to be conducted on primetime television, the project, entitled In the Name of the Place, found its host on television’s prime-time soap opera, Melrose Place. Free from gallery walls, this collective effort by scholars, artists, students, faculty, and television producers continues to air through global syndication. The GALA Committee was formed at the University of Georgia and California Institute of the Arts (“GA” for Georgia and “LA” for Los Angeles) to create props and make slight script revisions and adjustments as “product placements” not in service to commercial interests but to initiate the possibility of using the medium to assist in the generational transfer of ideas. // The project was also conceived as a collective, thus removing solo authorship. It relied on collective invention and cooperative presentation by the producers of both art and television. (http://melchin.org/oeuvre/in-the-name-of-the-place/)
____The GALA Committee, 1997 // Conceived as a viral, conceptual, public artwork to be conducted on primetime television, the project, entitled In the Name of the Place, found its host on television’s prime-time soap opera, Melrose Place. Free from gallery walls, this collective effort by scholars, artists, students, faculty, and television producers continues to air through global syndication. The GALA Committee was formed at the University of Georgia and California Institute of the Arts (“GA” for Georgia and “LA” for Los Angeles) to create props and make slight script revisions and adjustments as “product placements” not in service to commercial interests but to initiate the possibility of using the medium to assist in the generational transfer of ideas. // The project was also conceived as a collective, thus removing solo authorship. It relied on collective invention and cooperative presentation by the producers of both art and television. (http://melchin.org/oeuvre/in-the-name-of-the-place/)
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
2004 visiting artist, Visiting Artist Program
Work Creator (corporate) members (sort):
LaPointe, Jon
Work Creator (corporate) members (sort):
Chin, Mel
Work Creator (corporate) members (sort):
Penley, Constance
Work Style Period:
21st century
Work Style Period:
Contemporary
Work Worktype:
interviews
Work Category (VRC classification):
video
Work Measurements (display):
00:30:14
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
University of Colorado, Department of Art and Art History
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Boulder, Colorado
Image Rights (display):
© University of Colorado, Department of Art and Art History
Work Rights (display):
© GALA Committee
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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