tank.tv
A hybrid physical and online programme of exhibitions and accompanying events, exploring ‘post-internet art’ practice and curation.
- Submitting institution
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-50-1708
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- tank.tv exhibition space, 91–93 Great Portland Street, London W1W 7NX, U.K
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
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- Year of first exhibition
- 2014
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The tank.tv exhibition programme (2014–16) is a curatorial output by Ajay Hothi that explores ‘post-internet art’ through a hybrid physical and online programme of exhibitions and events. It consists of 19 commissioned exhibitions, two residencies, and a commissioned artwork. Hothi conceived, developed and oversaw the programme to explore post-internet art practice and curation. His aim was to enact a single, curatorial frame for new artwork that could engage across physical and digital spaces.
tank.tv opened as an online gallery space in 2003, and in 2010 Hothi was appointed its director. In2013, he received Arts Council England funding to establish a physical gallery space and set about developing London’s only public gallery dedicated to artists’ moving image and emerging technologies. Contemporaneously, he embarked on redeveloping the gallery’s online presence, to represent and facilitate post-internet art practice. In February2014, Hothi launched a parallel exhibition programme to operate across tank.tv’s online and on-site spaces.
Hothi built on his existing curatorial and programming expertise to develop and operate the hybrid curatorial programme, conducting primary and secondary research including commissioning a survey, conducting interviews, exhibition visits, and a literature review to explore the history and contemporary condition of digital art production and curation. Once live, he mobilised the gallery’s programming as part of the research methodology, as an iterative platform for testing and reflecting on the possibilities of curating digital artworks online and on-site.
The resulting programme contained physical and online exhibitions of sculpture, video, print, installation, painting, architectures, work-in-progress events, mobile and computer apps, objects, poetry and performance. Hothi also launched an artist and curatorial residency programme, commissioned new work, and staged interpretive events. Hothi invited over fifty artists and six curators, from eleven countries, to participate. In addition, Hothi produced up to twenty video interviews with artists and curators to disseminate the work.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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