Broadcasting House

"Broadcasting House" is a collaboration between Matthew Falla and Grizedale Arts in the Lake District.

Apparently there are around 14.5 million visitors to the Lake District every year. As has recently and controversially been noted, the majority of these visitors are white, middle aged and middle class. Generally they are not interested in the contemporary art offered by Grizedale. During our visit to the area, the local and tourist population's reactions to Grizedale seemed at best apathetic and at worst hostile.

What the tourists do like is small model houses depicting the English pastoral ideal. So Matthew came up with the concept of the "Broadcasting Houses". These modified model houses wait a predetermined time, and then intermittently broadcast a pirate television signal into the purchasers house, temporarily taking over their televisions.

- Matthew Falla

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