Test Tube

Synopsis

Produced by De Appel, Amsterdam, while General Idea was in residence there, Test Tube was conceived as a program for television. Presented under the brand "The Color Bar Lounge," a cocktail bar in the mythical 1984 Miss General Idea Pavilion, the program is a hybrid of popular television formats […] and infomercial. […] Advertisements for the bar are placed throughout the program; a loaded word choice, full of double-entendres and innuendo, betrays the influence of both Dadaism and consumerism. This collapse of popular and high culture is central to General Idea's agenda, as Felix Partz observes: "You know, the mass media are like a vast pharmaceutical complex developing new cultural elixirs of an unprecedented intoxication…but art remains a curious and elitist drink. Despite its unique flavor and heady cultural properties, it has never effectively been exploited."

Main Cast

AA Bronson

Himself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Felix Partz

Himself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Jorge Zontal

Himself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Marina Abramović

Age : 77 | Popularity : 5%

Titus Muizelaar

Age : 75 | Popularity : 3%

Wies Smals

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	General Idea
Writing	Writer	General Idea
Camera	Camera Operator	Frits Oostvogel
Department	Role	Name

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