Ant Farm – Off Air Australia (USA 1976)
Performance Video von Doug Michels, Chip Lord und Curtis Schreier / 21min / Englische Fassung ohne UT

1976 reiste die Ant Farm Gruppe nach Australien und erschreckte dort die Fernsehzuschauer mit ihren seltsamen Auftritten und einem Auto-Opern-Konzert in Sydney.

Role-playing and political performance were integral to Ant Farm's art-making strategies. In 1976 the group travelled to Australia as ironic "artists-in-residence," counter-cultural ambassadors. "Off-Air" Australia is a fragmented document of that trip, culled almost entirely from off-air footage of their television appearances, Australia media coverage of Ant Farm's events, and appropriated TV commercials. Ant Farm's Australian media events, including an irreverent performance of an "opera" for cars in front of the Sydney Opera House, typify their use of spectacle as social satire. The tape ends with a press conference on their proposed Dolphin Embassy project, a mobile platform for communicating with dolphins.