Lucky TVUntil September 2010

Lucky TV

Starting on the 20th of February, a new video exposition will open for visitors at the Graphic Design Museum.

LuckyTV is contemplated and created by Sander van de Pavert. He graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, in 2000. After his studies, he focused on video editing and specialized in re-editing existing footage; editing television interviews and talk shows into ridiculous or painful conversations.

Van de Pavert produces a daily comical relief for the daily Dutch television show De Wereld Draait Door, a cultural, political, but surely comical talk show. The show has ended. The guests shook each other's hands, the camera zoomed out. But after the credits there is a voice-over. Accompanied by a sad melody and images of Dutch streets, covered in snow, the audience is requested still to please donate kitchen salt to the victims of the horrible disaster that struck The Netherlands. The shortage of de-icing salt is making the roads pretty much impassable. "Help Holland now. Donate your salt. Thank you." The image of a bank number appears on screen. You remain behind, dazzled. Was this the beginning of a series of television commercials, or the final bits and pieces of the talk show's sense of humor?

The thirty seconds of short satire is a creation of Lucky TV.

Sander van de Pavert has provided over 1500 contributions to multiple Dutch television programs since 2002, among which De Wereld Draait Door (VARA), the Mike&Thomasshow (VARA), JENSEN! (RTL), 6Pack (MTV), and De Staat van Verwarring (VPRO). He has had his own weekly program at Comedy Central since January.

In its short videos, Lucky TV reacts to reality playfully and casually. Most of the time, Van de Pavert uses existing footage for these videos and cuts them up blatantly. At the Graphic Design Museum, LuckyTV will broadcast the highlights from the past 8 years, in just 30 minutes. Currently, this video is playing continuously on the big screen at the auditorium in the Graphic Design Museum. The separate clips can be viewed on line via www.luckytv.nl