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Test Tube (1979)

Directed by General Idea

TV Movie · 28m

Produced by De Appel, Amsterdam, while General Idea was in residence there, Test Tube was conceived as a program for television. Presented under the brand "The Color Bar Lounge," a cocktail bar in the mythical 1984 Miss General Idea Pavilion, the program is a hybrid of popular television formats […] and infomercial. […] Advertisements for the bar are placed throughout the program; a loaded word choice, full of double-entendres and innuendo, betrays the influence of both Dadaism and consumerism. This collapse of popular and high culture is central to General Idea's agenda, as Felix Partz observes: "You know, the mass media are like a vast pharmaceutical complex developing new cultural elixirs of an unprecedented intoxication…but art remains a curious and elitist drink. Despite its unique flavor and heady cultural properties, it has never effectively been exploited."

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Cast

A
AA Bronson Himself
F
Felix Partz Himself
J
Jorge Zontal Himself Marina Abramović Titus Muizelaar
W
Wies Smals

Crew

Director
General Idea
Writer
General Idea

Details

Release date
1979-01-01
Runtime
28m
Genres
TV Movie
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
Netherlands
Production
De Appel