Channel G
Sean Peoples
First presented at West Space in 2013, Channel G by Sean Peoples is virtually rebroadcast in 2025 on the occasion of Of Stadiums and Construction Sites (Ne change rien pour que tout soit différent), a project by Lisa Radford. The exhibition runs from 21 June until 10 August 2025 as part of the Past is Prologue: Four Decades of Gertrude program.
Channel G programs are added to the digital broadcast day and night throughout the exhibition. Watch this space.
In June and July 2013, Sean Peoples staged Channel G at West Space, transforming the gallery’s back space into a temporary, makeshift film studio that broadcast live and unscripted video content produced by an ensemble of local contemporary artists and friends of Peoples. As viewers of Channel G, we were privy to a wide range of ad hoc entertainment: from programs that engaged and subverted conventional TV genres and formats—such as news programs, infomercials, cooking demonstrations, quiz shows and interview panels—through to chaotic, spontaneous and absurd situations and skits. With more than one hundred participants involved and a total of sixty hours of footage captured (including one uninterrupted stretch of thirty-six hours), this was a highly ambitious and unprecedented project to be staged in a Melbourne artist-run initiative that stands as a distinct event, both in terms of its content and medium.
Patrice Sharkey, un Magazine, 2013.
Read more about Channel G on the un Magazine archive.
Dancing, Sean Peoples, 2013, Channel G, West Space, Naarm Melbourne, 2013, courtesy and © Sean Peoples
Sweet Dishes, Yiyi Wang & Ben Kendall, 2013, Channel G, West Space, Naarm Melbourne, 2013, courtesy and © Sean Peoples
Alan Smithee Presents DAMP (Rob Creedon, Narelle Desmond, Sharon Goodwin, Deb Kunda and James Lynch), DAMP, 2013, Channel G, Westspace, Naarm Melbourne, 2013, courtesy and © Sean Peoples
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