Barry’s TV Cabinet, 2016


Barry’s TV Cabinet was developed for ‘Object Therapy’, curated by Guy Keulemans, Andy Marks, Niklavs Rubenis and Dan Honey. Originally exhibited at Hotel-Hotel, Canberra, and later at the Australian Design Centre, Sydney and touring nationally.

The work is a remaking of Barry’s 1977 colour television. Much of the unit has been discarded resulting in a slim cabinet containing a functional TV interface. Rather than act as a TV receiver the unit now broadcasts TV signals from the 1970’s. This local broadcast can be tuned into from adjacent analogue TVs.

More information on this project can be found on the ADC website.

Photo 1 & 2 by Lee Grant (images copyright Hotel Hotel), photo 3 by ADC.