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T.V. to See the Sky
Inspired by Yoko Ono's "Sky T.V."
Starting at sunrise in Los Angeles at 5:42 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (2:42 p.m. CEST), the “Bubble Bath for the Summer Solstice” installation will stream the sky above Graz for 24 hours. The installation in the exhibition space will be open during this period in accordance with COVID-19 regulations.
This work is inspired by Yoko Ono’s second version of SKY T.V., conceived in 1967 for the Lisson Gallery. She described the project as “a television set for simply watching the sky. Different channels for different directions—high sky, low sky, etc.” SKY T.V. 1966 (furniture piece) was a video sculpture that Ono described as a “video surveillance system,” “set up in the gallery to view the sky.” It broadcast a live video feed of the sky above the building where the work was installed—a way to bring the sky indoors, even if a room has no windows.
In collaboration with Yoko Ono, the Getty Research Institute and the Feminist Center for Creative Work will present a 24-hour video stream of the sky via Zoom. A network of international institutions will participate in the live broadcast of the sky to viewers at home.
In a time of profound revolution and reflection, a time of restricted travel yet marked by a deep longing for connection, we wish to join Ono in her invocation of the heavens as a space of generative possibility and renewal, and as a territory beyond the reach of capital and property.
The event will take place on June 21, 2021, coinciding with the summer solstice and the Strawberry Moon lunar eclipse (June 20–24). Everyone is invited to post their own photos of the sky on social media during this time using the hashtag #tvtoseethesky!
Participants include:
Albertinum (Dresden State Art Collections), Dresden, Germany
Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Art Exchange, Colchester, UK
Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest, Hungary
Artsonje, Seoul, South Korea
Asia Art Archive in America, India & Hong Kong
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, US
Associação Cultural Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil
British Antarctic Survey, Halley Research Station, Antarctica
Casa de la Cultura Tijuana, Mexico
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Collaborative Cataloguing Japan, Philadelphia, US
Contemporary Calgary, Canada
Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, US
Dashboard US, Atlanta, US
Feminist Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, US
Gallery Trax, Yamanashi, Japan
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, US
Greenland National Museum and Archives, Nuuk, Greenland
Group Locale, Tunis, Tunisia
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., US
Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii, US
Houston Center for Photography, Texas, US
Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, US
Interstitial Press, Australia
Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, US
Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
M+, Hong Kong
Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Museum of Art & Design, San José, Costa Rica
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
Muzeum Sztuki Łódź, Łódź, Poland
National Gallery Singapore
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, US
Rangi Gallery & ARK Artist Residency Program, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Recess Art, Brooklyn, US
Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
Rice Brewing Sisters Club, Anseong, South Korea
SALT, Istanbul, Turkey
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
Schaumbad – Freies Atelierhaus Graz, Austria
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei City, Taiwan
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, US
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Wali Chafu Collective, Nairobi, Kenya
Womanifesto in Sydney, Australia; Udonthani, Thailand & Baroda, India
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art, Cape Town, South Africa
Photo: Yoko Ono – “Sky TV for Washington,” 1966/2014
Closed-circuit video installation
Dimensions variable
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 2016
Photo credit: William Andrews. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.