The
installation is set up in an empty apartment located in a residential
neighborhood of Cologne. The five members of the family in question
are five video monitors located in various rooms throughout the
flat. The perfect “cathodic” bliss of their blank minds
is exemplified by the blurry images visible on their screens. In
the center of the living room a real television is tuned in non-stop
to the programming of the ARD network. The visitors are made up
of curious members of the general public, who read about the project
in ads published in the real estate/for rent sections of local newspapers,
and people who received official invitations to the opening.