TV Tumor

Description:

TV Tumor was a thirty-minute video-active performance by Marshall Weber and Phillip Patiris that examined the manipulative mechanisms of television and imagined strategies of resistance. The work interwove four material sources: a pre-recorded tape, the live actions of the performers, a real-time surveillance feed of the audience, and live broadcast television.

For much of the performance, the television set itself was in constant physical motion. Wrenched from its traditional role as a stationary domestic altar, the moving set circled and confronted the audience—a metaphorical intervention that dismantled the illusion of television as a passive medium and challenged the assumption of audience agency.