After the Watershed | Late-Nite TV from Britain
Exhibition
Various/Artists, 19 Essex St, 2025
When British television slipped “after the watershed” — 9pm — broadcasting rules were loosened. From the 1960s to the 1990s, living room screens across the country filled with wonky experiments, sinister provocations, strange beauty. The centre became the edge. Night turned into a university - a free one.
After the Watershed revisits this era and brings its unruly spirit to New York, transforming Various/Artists into an uncanny living-room space where visitors can experience late-night TV as it was meant to be seen: on large CRT cubes, in real time, without pause or rewind. The exhibition recreates the rhythms of a bygone broadcast culture. Each week a new schedule will play on loop, mixing forgotten dramas, subcultural dispatches, artists’ TV, political theory, all manner of inexplicable debris.
Presented with the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture at New York University and curated with Sukhdev Sandhu and Colm McAuliffe.
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Exhibition
Various/Artists, 19 Essex St, 2025
When British television slipped “after the watershed” — 9pm — broadcasting rules were loosened. From the 1960s to the 1990s, living room screens across the country filled with wonky experiments, sinister provocations, strange beauty. The centre became the edge. Night turned into a university - a free one.
After the Watershed revisits this era and brings its unruly spirit to New York, transforming Various/Artists into an uncanny living-room space where visitors can experience late-night TV as it was meant to be seen: on large CRT cubes, in real time, without pause or rewind. The exhibition recreates the rhythms of a bygone broadcast culture. Each week a new schedule will play on loop, mixing forgotten dramas, subcultural dispatches, artists’ TV, political theory, all manner of inexplicable debris.
Presented with the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture at New York University and curated with Sukhdev Sandhu and Colm McAuliffe.
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