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Categories: Happening
Relevant passages:
Rudolf Frieling «Reality/Mediality
Hybrid Processes Between Art and Life»
Works by Paik, Nam June; Moorman, Charlotte:
Marcel Odenbach «The Consumption of My Own Criticism»
Frederike Pezold «The New Embodied Sign Language» Klaus, vom Bruch »Das Propellerband (Installation zum Schnitt des Videos)« Marcel Odenbach «Keep Your Chin Up!» Valie Export «Body Sign Action»
Paik, Nam June; Moorman, Charlotte
«24-hour Happening»
Charlotte Moorman and «Robot K-456» accompany Nam June Paik on a European tour. Both perform Paik's musical pieces (albeit in somewhat different ways), but their contribution to the «24-hour Happening» is a joint effort. Charlotte Moorman plays the cello in her famous see-through plastic dress, occasionally diving into a barrel of water and then continuing, dripping wet, to play her instrument, or rides around on Paik's back. According to Paik, however, there were interruptions due to human frailties: «Charlotte and I wanted to play a piece by John Cage, but shortly before we were due to begin, Charlotte fell into a sleep from which she was reluctant to awake, no matter how much I shouted and shook her. At my wit's end, I pretended to sleep while playing La Monte Young's piano pieces. Charlotte woke up at 2 in the morning, and they tell me she delivered a wonderful performance.»
