the set up of an installation

Mary's TVis  a video installation by Maria Konstantines Araka @BAC (Battersea Arts Center)

Public Production: May 2010

People would enter a living room like space and sit on a sofa .Next to them there is a small table with a remote control and the whole space has a very cosy-homie  atmosphere.
The TV is on and is playing on loop the video of Mary's TV.
Although the control is there,on the table,they aren't allowed to change the channels.
The sound is coming from speakers ,being set up behind the sofa and they were extracts from recorded tele-marketing channels.
A dodgy atmosphere,like the one you can find in many houses nowadays.TV is always on,and everything in the daily life must be done due to TV rules.
TV breakfast
TV lunch
TV dinner
TV love
      TV RULES..and Mary's TV wants to rule your brains.