Esopus 15

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The 15th issue of ESOPUS is devoted entirely to television, which Paddy Chayefsky famously called “the menace that everyone loves to hate but can’t seem to live without.” Contents include artists’ projects by Alex Bag, Dara Birnbaum, and Johan Grimonprez, as well as an interview with Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King relating to their short-lived but groundbreaking HBO series “The Comeback”; Norman Lear’s hand-notated script notes from an episode of “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman;” 100 frames from Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “World on a Wire,” a science-fiction film the director made for German TV in 1974; a re-presentation of the late conceptual artist Keith Arnatt’s “Self-Burial: Television Interference Project,” 1969; materials from the MoMA archives related to an NBC show about modern art hosted by Alfred Barr in 1955, and essays on sitcom sofas and the demise of the American soap opera. The issue closes with an audio CD featuring new songs inspired by specific TV shows; participants include Stephin Merritt (“Meerkat Manor”), Cloud Nothings (“Golden Girls”), and Freelance Whales (“My So-Called Life”).

EDITOR’S NOTE
By Tod Lippy

SELF-BURIAL: TELEVISION INTERFERENCE PROJECT, 1969
By Keith Arnatt

EPISODE 124: THE MAKINGS OF A MELTDOWN
Interview with Norman Lear by Claire Barliant

ARTIST’S PROJECT: JOHAN GRIMONPREZ
“Skyjackers Series,” 2010

NOT IT ANYMORE
Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King on The Comeback

THE LIFER
Interview with Larry Auerbach

THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
By Jean Passanante

ARTIST’S PROJECT: ALEX BAG
“Two Storyboards,” 2010

SEAT OF COMEDY
Text and Drawings by Mame McCutchin

ARTIST’S PROJECT: DARA BIRNBAUM
“Going to Black,” 2010

100 FRAMES: FASSBINDER’S WORLD ON A WIRE
Introduction by J. Hoberman

MODERN ARTIFACTS: THE ART OF BROADCASTING
Introduction by Michelle Elligott

ESOPUS INVITATIONAL
“What Would You Like To See On Television?”

ANGUS TRUMBLE’S 1966 IN RETROSPECT
One year. One page. (14th in a series)

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