IWant2BeOnTV: HOME TV I Screening / Q&A

LV15 workshop series - HOME TV I Screening / Q&A with IWant2BeOnTV at Eastern Edge.

2:30pm / FREE / All Ages

Want2BeOnTV (QC) is a video project started in 2021 based on recreating public access television with Alex Apostolidis’s broader arts community. In 2023/2024, Alex Apostolidis and Ben RJ Goss produced "HOME TV I", a video series about queering television that reimagines pre-streaming era television made with a DIY focus. “HOME TV I” explores different television tropes, challenging the way media representation influences and maintains cultural hegemony. Building on Apostolidis’s previous works, “HOME TV I” creates an earnest yet playful portrayal of queer lifestyles and aesthetics and while toying with the performative nature of gender and sexuality, production and labour, identity politics and comedy as a coping mechanism.  The videos in the series include “The News”(2024), “Kid’s Show”(2024), “Music TV”(2024), “Hot-Dog Eating Competition”(2023) and “Episode 1: The Future of Television”(2021)…