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