Been thinking about Ant Farm this week. Not sure why but I’ve always loved Media Burn. Great stuff.
Ant Farm’s “Media Burn” performance from 1975. Media Burn integrates performance, spectacle and media critique, as Ant Farm stages an explosive collusion of two of America’s most potent cultural symbols: the automobile and television. On July 4, 1975, at San Francisco’s Cow Palace, Ant Farm presented the “ultimate media event.” In this alternative Bicentennial celebration, a “Phantom Dream Car” — a reconstructed 1959 El Dorado Cadillac convertible — was driven through a wall of burning TV sets.
