Panel Time/Space # 1. John Cage, Dave Ashton, M. Cunningham, NJP, R.Kostelanetz_”

R.Kostelanetz

• Kaprow, Cage, Lamont Young, Joseph Cornell, Paik, deKooning
• “I don’t object to categorizing and defining work, but I think they’re pernicious in defining people – they close off one’s space”
• “Polyartist” – a single grand professional space… it’s hard to know where one art ends and another begins

J. Cage

• “How to go out through the senses, without any concepts… That’s why I use chance operations.”
• “If I have the opportunity to continue working, I think the work would resemble more and more not the work of a person, but something that might have happened even if the person wasn’t there.  Or something like that.”
• Plurality of buddas in gnostic christianity – “split the stick and there is jesus”
• We don’t live by one principle but by multiple
• Indian philosophy and the division of thinking into four parts: the goals of cooking/hunting, the goals of pleasure/sex, the goals of true/false and good and evil, and the liberation from all these concerns
• “Writing music is one thing and hunting wild mushrooms is another”

CBS Evening News with Cliff Baldwin, 1-10-83

• Report on Paik’s Guinness Book of World Records

Anthology Film Archives – NJP Anthology Performaince Part II (Shot by Blair Thurman?)

• Paik’s piece is a duo of emergency airhorns – played until the run out of compressed air

TLC Documentary – The Learning Channel – 1993

• South Korea’s National Museum of Contemporary Art –
• SOHO 
  • 1964 moves from Germany
  • Nearly 30 years after his first video art exhibition
• 1932 – Seoul Korea
  • music and western technology
  • ‘people hiding inside the radio technology’
  • interest in twelve tone music – staukausen
• 1964 – New York
  • Best kind of robot – as it took 4 men to repair and use the robot – create jobs
• 1982 – Whitney Museum first retrospective
  • Participation TV
  • Moon is the oldest TV
  • TV Buddha
• David Ross – Directo, Whitney Museum
• 1986 – Wrap Around the World
  • TV as a liberator
  • Orwell was wrong
• David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson
• Holly Solmon – Holly Solomon Gallery
  • “why i love nam june paik’s work so very much is because its hopeful…”
• “I am trying to intersect software, hardware and underwear”
• 1992 – Major Retrospective in Seoul
• 1993 – Golden Lion award for Venice Biennale – Hans Haacke and Nam June Paik

American Art Today – A View from the Whitney – 1987

• Lisa Phillips – Curator 
  • early eighties was a tumultuous change – occured in the early eighties
• Barbara Kruger
• Commodity art – loss, technical production, reprographic, reduction of the presence of the hand
• Judy Pfaff – NYC BQE
• Paik
• Hanhardt
• Yvonne Rainer – The Man Who Envied Women
• Paul Glabicki – Obeject Conversation
• Bill Viola – I do not know what it is I am like

Tiger Lives by Nam June Paik – 1999

Robot Accident from Living with the Living Theater – 1989