Being a big fan of Bram Stocker's novel and a devoted enthusiast of F.F Coppola film I was looking for some Dracula-signs (and souvenirs). Unfortunately there were no interesting artifacts of a vampire's history but I have came across wonderful and witty exhibition in Cluj Art Museum titled TV MANIA. Below please find some of the exhibits:
Some of them were quite pessimistic but still very amusing:
In Polish language there is an expression "mowa trawa" which can be translated as "straw talk" - biting remark on television.
Count Monte Christo it is called.
There were several projects that presented fresh perspective and a kind of phenomenological view on TV set as an element of everyday life:
A tricky perspective on television as a mean of communication:
For me the most interesting was the merge between technology and both religion and traditional culture.
TV Triptych:
Embroidery TV
TV set used for creating the traditional painted chest:
It is quite interesting that in traditional groups elements of modern culture are used outside their context as decorative elements (unforgettable glass elements of telegraphic poles as an fancy elements of the gate on polish villages).
And the last one is my favourite Animal TV:
