Into the Blue | Fragments from the TV Generation

It was never about cinema, this country for old men. It wasn’t even about video. It was about the final step into the holy grail. To enter the blue box, to finally become one with the pale blue rays.The video camera was the key to Aladdin‘s cave, and we thought we could gain control, reclaim our part of this beautiful intangible instant.
We expected an X-ray blue palace. It turned out to be a rabbit-hole.

 

stay hungry, André Werner, 3-channel video installation, gallery A&O, 1990
stay hungry, André Werner, 3-channel video installation, gallery A&O*, 1990

 

*A&O | Subliminal Perception Systems

The A&O Gallery, a follow up of the art guerilla project of the same name, was one of the few art spots that regularly presented video art from Berlin and New York.