[Reader-list] www.tank.tv : Now Showing Paul McCarthy, until 29th Feb

[tank.tv press]

*www.tank.tv: Now Showing Paul McCarthy, until 29th Feb
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"The Father Begat the Son
The Son Begat the Father"
Paul McCarthy,* Family Tyranny*.

Throughout February tank.tv will have the pleasure of exhibiting two works
by Paul McCarthy.

*Family Tyranny* & *Cultural Soup* were cut from two days of taped
performance at a community television studio in 1987. Featuring McCarthy's
fellow artist Mike Kelley, the videos are disturbing tableaux of familial
horror, steeped in the stomach turning abjection that characterises the
artist's now renowned body of work.

Performed within a barely credible domestic set the format and characters in
the videos enact several tropes of televised entertainment  - the unruly
teenager (as Mike Kelley attempts an escape through a window-like aperture)
and the ‘how-to’ format of the cooking or DIY programme. The characters,
just like the set, sit on the very edge of plausibility whilst the props
also take on a life of their own at the border between representation and
reality. It is this juncture, between fact and fiction, that McCarthy
occupies in order to examine the dark fictions of cultural convention.

Rather than produce these works as performance in 1987 McCarthy used that
very contemporary tool of representation – video – to situate *Family
Tyranny *and *Cultural Soup* closer to the domestic sphere than an ephemeral
art event would have allowed. tank.tv is pleased to be able to re-situate
this work once again within the context of an online community that
experiences broadcast media in a way that could not previously have been
imagined.

This show is held in conjunction with a screening of McCarthy's *Contemporary
Cure All *and* **F-Fort* on the 6th February at 7pm in Tate Modern's Starr
Auditorium. Book your tickets early through the Tate box office.

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