By saying “television,” I mean, more or less, that we should talk about the moon.

– Judy Radul

What of TV’s history have you witnessed? Join us on Thursday, September 18 for an evening with artist, poet and professor Judy Radul, whose multi-media installation THIS IS TELEVISION is on view in the Denna Homes Gallery as part of the current exhibition Star Witnesses. Radul will improvise with live-edited text projections while reading from her 2018 artist’s book, itself an extension of her exhibition at the DAADgalerie in Berlin, where the constellation of works currently on view at The Polygon was first presented in 2013.

Limited copies of This Is Television are available at The Diane Evans Bookstore. Call 604-986-1351 or email retailmanager@thepolygon.ca to reserve a copy or enter the draw to win a limited-edition poster on the evening of Radul’s reading.

Doors at 6:30pm
Reading at 7:00pm

Admission is by a suggested donation of $10-20, courtesy of BMO Financial Group

RSVPs are helpful

About the Artist
Judy Radul’s video installations often incorporate an original computer-controlled motion choreography and playback system for live and pre-recorded video. The work has touched on themes such as: legal media aesthetics; camera vision and time-space relations; media and subject formation; the cross roads of emergent experience and representation; recursive structures of thought and media; motion and reflections. Plays with language and the humour of human perception, are also present in the works. Recent exhibitions include: Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, 2024: Dazibao, Montreal, 2023; Gwangju Biennale, 2021; Albertinum Museum, Dresden, 2021; Kunstinstitute Melly, Rotterdam, 2017. She has published two books with Sternberg Press Berlin: A Thousand Eyes: Media Technology, Law and Aesthetics, 2011 co-edited with Marit Paasche, and This Is Television, 2018. She is a Professor of Visual Art at SFU School for Contemporary Arts. She lives in Berlin and within unceded Tsleil-Waututh, Skwxwú7mesh and Musqueam lands. She is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver.

About the Publication
This Is Television addresses the increasingly obsolete medium of television by way of the medium of the book. Radul offers an evolving definition of what TV is across several chapters, including: CRAIG, featuring analog TVs for sale on Craigslist in 2013; LANDING, focused on the German TV coverage of the 1969 Apollo Moon Landing; MOON, a chapter about the relations between TV and the moon; and ORAL HISTORY focused on people’s thoughts and memories of TV. Homing in on shared experience, the book asks to be read collectively.

EDITED by Ariane Beyn, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Judy Radul
TEXTS by Diedrich Diederichsen, Honor Gavin, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Judy Radul
PUBLISHED by Sternberg Press and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program
December 2018, English
 21.5×28 cm, 240 pages, 5 b/w and 103 color ill., softcover
 ISBN 978-3-95679-446-9
DESIGN Katja Gretzinger

Banner image: Posters, This Is Television, Judy Radul