Slow, Artistic, Indie TV

Northwestern University scholar Aymar Jean Christian likens the ballooning number of commercial TV shows to fast food. That makes the short-form web series on his platform Open TV beta—created by artists who are queer, trans, and people of color largely left out of commercial television production—slow food. Through clips, conversation, and live performances by featured artists Ricardo Gamboa, Shea Couleé, and NIC Kay, Christian takes present and future queer TV fans on a behind-the-scenes journey through a production process that can take up to a year.

This program is presented in partnership with the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University.

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