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Report on the Satellite Telecast Performance ‘Double Entendre’ prod. by Douglas Davis

On 16May 1981 the Whitney Museum ofAmerican Art in New York City and the Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou in Paris sponsored the performance of Douglas Davis' 'Double Entendre'. It involved an audience and two performers at each location, one of whom responded during a 20 minute program to aural and visual information transmitted by satellite telecasting. Pre-recorded video sequences were also mixed into the 'live' performance and transmitted back and forth across the Atlantic. Fragments of each version, recorded separately in New York and also in Paris, were later presented in 'limited access' (cable) networks in each country. Davis in his productions is especially concerned with exceeding the limits of 'the frame', first in the sense of a definitive physical boundary endowed to modernist art and architecture and, second, in the sense of the conceptual restraints imposed by social and economic factors on artists who work directly with communications media. He finds that most television programs in the U.S.A. have a one-sided consumer-consumption context that excludes viewers from a feeling of intimacy with the medium and possibilities of a democratic give-and-take exchange.