by Maria DeBlassie
Daily Lobo
Tal Caspi hates TV.
"TV takes away your time," Caspi said. "You sit there and don't do anything or think anything. You become one with the television."
Caspi is the creator of Kill TV, a group of artists who try to represent art in a different kind of way, including displaying artists' work online. Its first show, "Primero," starts Friday. The show will include more than 20 artists and 15 bands.
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Lesa Murphy is an artist whose work will be displayed in the show. She said Kill TV wants to have art shows that are more interactive and inspiring than the average gallery opening.
"We'd like there to be not just visual art but something for the ears, something to stimulate your mind more," Murphy said.
She said the show will have many different types of art, including video art, performance art, live music and the more traditional photography and painting. She said the show will draw people in who otherwise wouldn't go to an art show.
"Anything can be art," Murphy said. "By combining the medias we reach a greater audience. Traditional art shows are very limited."
She's primarily a painter, she said, but does a variety of artwork. Becoming an artist wasn't a conscious decision for her, she said. The decision just flew out of her.
"I've transcribed how I see the world, how I see my daily life onto canvas," she said.
She hopes Kill TV is how art will be experienced in the future, she said.
"Kill TV is an evolution of art," Murphy said. "It inspires people to create art themselves."
Caspi said the opening is more like a party than a show.
"It's open-minded," he said. "We're not stuck up."
He said Kill TV is a metaphor for anything that gets in the way of doing something creative. He targeted TV because it's the easiest way to escape life, which can sometimes be tough.
He said art is important because it changes things. It brings out everything that exists in the world, good and bad, Murphy said. It's a form of release. He said it's good for people to experience different aspects of art and take themselves out of their comfort zone.
"It's a great way to get people to experiment," Caspi said.
When asked about the variety of the work shown, Murphy said the more the merrier. "Why give somebody one thing when you can give them 10?"
Sylvia Valek, photographer and video artist, said she's excited to be part of a more underground art show.
"It just seems more real," she said. "They're just putting everything together."
Valek said she also does street art, sculpture and experimental work.
"I tend to use a lot of different mediums," Valek said. "It usually doesn't have a name, it's just whatever I feel like putting together at the time."
Although this introductory show is a hodgepodge of art, Caspi said Kill TV plans to have shows based on certain themes like fabric or music and let the artist interpret that idea however they want.
