This video creation workshop is part of the “Hibou TV Show” exhibition presented at Bétonsalon from January 30 to April 18, 2026. A project by artist Jean-Alain Corre, accompanied for the occasion by author Gaëlle Obiégly, Hibou TV Show aims to question and subvert the codes of the television medium by exploring the image-making process through experiments with various program formats, co-constructed with different actors, contributors, and members of the public. Designed as a modular television set with multiple configurations, the exhibition offers an opportunity to explore alternative spaces of expression in television history by “playing at making television,” while deconstructing the socio-cultural tropes that have shaped the imaginaries conveyed by mainstream media.

In this context, the workshop invites participants to play with the codes of sitcoms and parodic television formats such as the infomercials popularized by the [adult swim] channel. More than just entertainment, sitcoms have long served as an ironic mirror to the eras that saw their birth.

Whereas classic sitcoms aimed to promote social cohesion—laughing together at our contradictions—satirical infomercials expose the breakdown of meaning and a form of media fatigue. By adopting the appearance of trustworthy television (smooth images, reassuring tone, staged everyday life), these fake programs promote a product in the style of a documentary or talk show in order to better explode television codes, releasing in the process a “box of idiocy” that is as cynical as it is nostalgic, aware of its own excesses and its apathetic power.

Through writing, staging, and filming, participants will be able to imagine a fake television program (opening sequence, program, episode, etc.) exploring how media formats can be hijacked to reveal, question, and reinvent a television that mocks itself.