2014 Exhibition
15. Mike Teavee: “Am I coming in clear?”
The flickering glow of television light as seen from outside a neighbors’ window or cast upon the face of an entranced viewer is distinct and familiar. Mike Teavee re-creates the magnetic glow of television in a wide open urban lot at night. Viewed from a distance, the large, luminous, blueish-white screen floats in the darkness, drawing you like a moth to a flame. Up close, get transported into an otherworldly, all-white, TV (stage) set which playfully distorts perspective and scale. Actors / visitors inside the great television will encounter props, hidden entrances, and inclined surfaces. Audiences outside can complete the charades by broadcasting to the world the happenings at Mike Teavee via their Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, making real stars out of pretend actors in a pretend TV. Mike Teavee allows children and kids-at-heart to fulfill the ubiquitous fantasy of being ‘sent by television’. “Hey mom, I said, am I coming in clear?”
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Artist Information
D MET is an award-winning architecture and design studio located in Midtown Detroit. At D MET, we bring a fresh sensibility to the creation of urban space through our disciplined, collaborative approach to design. Our expertise combines an informed academic insight with experienced hands-on professionalism. We engage a wide range of project types and scales for clients who are connoisseurs in their field and believe in the power of well- designed space to enhance quality of life and community. With each project, we seek to evoke a resonating imagery derived from place and purpose, to re-position technical and budgetary constraints as catalysts for design, and to engage the people involved from start to finish. The result is a compelling and crafted architecture which exists in dialog with its users and surroundings. D MET is founded and operated by husband and wife Joel Schmidt and Elizabeth Skrisson.
D MET Design:Elizabeth Skrisson
