Test Tube
Overview
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.""
Top-billed cast
Crew
- Director
- General Idea
- Writer
- General Idea
- Production
- De Appel
Frequently asked questions
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Who directed Test Tube?
Test Tube was directed by General Idea.
When was Test Tube released?
Test Tube was released in 1979.
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