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Item: Emission - Réception

Antoni Muntadas

1973-1974

Installation
Materials: slides

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. BK007795).

Emission – Réception opposes and describes the relation between television screens in a bar and the audience. A straight media – work formulated within the concrete; formulated as emission and reception. This quasi didactic (Franco – period) artwork reflects on suspicion, the complex of communication, interaction, transmission, emission and reception of messages. The medium in this work is to find the right communication- channel; how messages are sent and received when easily manipulated by the power of the political institutions. It’s an engagement with the idea of the future democracy in Spain. He reflects on the difference between the emission and the transmission; he is pointing at the community, reflecting on the relation between society and the media.

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