NJP Film Archive (selections)

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

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