Skip to main content

Televised Texts

Jenny Holzer

1990 00:06:31 United StatesEnglishColorMono4:3Video

Description

Holzer adopts the form and language of commercial messages to disrupt communication, presenting kamikaze texts that are designed to stimulate thought, with humor, and inspire a critical attitude in an often passive audience. As in all of Holzer’s work, these television spots present deceptively simple sequences of text that mix provocative social commentary with resonant poetic reflection.

Note: Televised Texts are designed to appear separately on television, or other curated programs, anonymously and spontaneously. Contact us for a complete list of texts and availability.

About Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer verbalizes ideas, expressed in the form of signs. The power of language to distort and manipulate is the basis of Holzer’s art, which is intellectual rather than visual. She is internationally renowned for her linguistic interventions in every inch of the social arena, from parking meters to T-shirts to billboards to electronic sign boards.