E.S.P. TV

Daytime Viewing: Primetime
poster from live performance
March 12,2017
Pioneer Works, Brooklyn , NY
part of the exhibition: E.S.P.TV : WORK

Live broadcast performance featured interpretations of Jacqueline Humbert and David Rosenboom's Daytime Viewing(1979-80)
with record release with
Erica Magrey, Dana Bell, Heidi Jien Jouet, Shana Moulton, MV Carbon, Johanna Herr

Directed by Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie


revisited as a screening event at with .xyz
January 31, 2025

Celebrating Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives

with a look at
Vidas Perfectas, 2014

the Spanish-language version of Robert Ashley's groundbreaking “television opera” Perfect Lives (1983). The work premiered at the 2014 Whitney Biennial , Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Curated by Anthony Elms.

Additional Performances include Ballroom Marfa and Tricky Falls in Texas and Museo de la Revolución en la Frontera in Juarez, Mexico.

All episodes were filmed in front of a live audience, mixed with live camera feeds as part of the live television experience. Between the performances, Alex Waterman and E.S.P. TV used the room as a workspace to rehearse, edit, and prepare footage for live television.

Perfect Lives was originally commissioned for television by The Kitchen, New York, in 1979 and was completed in 1983, co-produced by The Kitchen and Channel Four in Great Britain.

Composed by Robert Ashley Directed by Alex Waterman Starring Ned Sublette as Raoul de Noget Elio Villafranca Elisa Santiago Raul De Nieves Music Produced by Peter Gordon Original Keyboard Melodies and Harmonies “Blue” Gene Tyranny Production Design Sean Daly Backdrops and Set Pieces Sarah Crowner Lighting Design David Moodey Costumes Elisa Santiago Live Televisual Composition Victoria Keddie and Scott Kiernan (E.S.P. TV) Director of Photography Peter Szollosi

Photos by Paula Court, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art ©2014