Next week on E.S.P. TV
As part of ACRE TV Takeover
June 1 – 7, 2015
Directed by Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie, this expansive project utilizes a mobile television studio to explore the artist dialogue with broadcast transmission, analog and digital media, and televisual liveness. ACRE TV hosts a TV marathon special entitled Next week on E.S.P. TV. With over 50 live taping events and over 75 episodes to date, this televisual series showcases the full spectrum of E.S.P. TV’s 4 years of broadcast. The episodes will be played back to back from June 1 – 7 2015. Made for television, the E.S.P. TV archive lives on forever in a perpetual “re-run”.
E.S.P. TV’s live TV studio hybridizes technologies old and new, to realize synthetic environments for performance while exposing their process of production. Each live taping event is the realization of an artists’ collaboration with us. These events are taped live with a crew of cameramen, sound engineer, and video mixing team in front of an audience. The recorded events air on Manhattan Neighborhood Network public television weekly, as well as online, and have been exhibited internationally.
E.S.P. TV has worked with various venues including: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, Printed Matter, Millennium Film Workshop, New School, Rawson Projects, Recess (NYC); Interstate Projects, Spectacle Theater, Issue Project Room, Roulette (Brooklyn); Franklin Street Works (Stamford, CT), Liminal Space (Oakland, CA), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA), Human Resources (LA), Ballroom Marfa, Marfa Public Radio, (Marfa, TX), Museum of Human Achievement (Austin, TX), S1(Portland, OR), Nightingale Cinema, Chicago, MOCAD (Detroit MI), General Public (Berlin), STORE (Dresden), Studio XX (Montreal), Kling and Bang Gallery (Reykjavik) and Pallas Projects (Dublin).
E.S.P. TV broadcasts every Tuesday night at 10PM on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN). Channel 67 in Manhattan, as well as online at mnn.org. All episodes are then posted online on their website, ESPTV.com, and Vimeo page, vimeo.com/esptv. E.S.P. TV now also airs on Wednesdays with Comcast Cable 66/966 or Verizon Fios 29/30 in Philadelphia at 11:30PM.