Channel 3 is a durational street performance that explores the relationship between communication, presence, and the technological sublime. The artist sits for hours in front of a Clear Channel street advertisement, watching it as if it were a television broadcast. Passersby stop, confused. Some engage. Others simply stand beside her and watch. After hours of passive observation, the artist covers the ad with strips of colored tape, recreating the SMPTE color bars—a universal signal for interruption or absence: “no signal.”
The performance draws on early telecommunication codes and the strange mysticism of languages built for machines rather than people. It reflects on the transformation of public space—from a site of shared experience to one of automated transmissions, indifferent and anonymous. Channel 3 asks what remains unspoken, unseen, or lost in a world saturated with signals.
Performed in Lisbon (2015).
Isadora Petrauskas 