Exhibitions/Events/More
14.06.2014
20:00
Collectors' Favorites
Jennifer Bornstein, Amgad Naguib, Ania Szremski
A Guest Without A Host Is A Ghost
Public Program
Public Program
2 – 18 June, 2014
Saturday, 14 June, 8 pm
Townhouse
Amgad Naguib and Ania Szremski in conversation about the notion of collecting, along with Jennifer Bornstein's televisionary Collectors' Favorites (1994, 21 min.)
Jennifer Bornstein
Collectors’ Favorites, 1994, 21 min.
Collectors’ Favorites is an episode of a local cable program from the mid-nineties in which ordinary people were invited to present their personal collections—a concept that in many ways anticipates current reality TV shows and internet videos. When her turn to “perform” comes, Bornstein displays mundane and disposable—but elaborately archived or framed—consumer objects such as coffee lids, plastic straws, candy wrappers, and product labels. Through the medium of public broadcasting, she makes apparent the massive cultural penetration of advertising, and its proliferation of “throwaway culture” via images. Further, Bornstein suggests that within a massive and mercurial social network that often places value arbitrarily, any worthless mass-market products can be turned into coveted objects via absurd relations and vice versa.
Townhouse
Amgad Naguib and Ania Szremski in conversation about the notion of collecting, along with Jennifer Bornstein's televisionary Collectors' Favorites (1994, 21 min.)
Jennifer Bornstein
Collectors’ Favorites, 1994, 21 min.
Collectors’ Favorites is an episode of a local cable program from the mid-nineties in which ordinary people were invited to present their personal collections—a concept that in many ways anticipates current reality TV shows and internet videos. When her turn to “perform” comes, Bornstein displays mundane and disposable—but elaborately archived or framed—consumer objects such as coffee lids, plastic straws, candy wrappers, and product labels. Through the medium of public broadcasting, she makes apparent the massive cultural penetration of advertising, and its proliferation of “throwaway culture” via images. Further, Bornstein suggests that within a massive and mercurial social network that often places value arbitrarily, any worthless mass-market products can be turned into coveted objects via absurd relations and vice versa.