At Yam Festival in 1963, which took place on 9 May in New Brunswick [New Jersey], Wolf Vostell organized a “happening” that featured the strange, allegorical funeral of a television. For the ceremony, Vostell wrapped the television set in barbed wire and buried it “alive,” with a program still playing on the screen. “After the set was buried, the sound could still be heard for a long time … On one side there was visualization and burial, and then on the other, the purely cerebral work of imagining the object’s continued but invisible operation.”
VIDEO: PRIMERA ETAPA [VIDEO: FIRST STAGE], LAURA BAIGORRI, MADRID: BRUMARIA EDITORIAL, 2005