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Works by Nam June Paik:
Action with a violin on a string (staged during «Exposition of Music – Electronic Television»)
Baroque Laser German Pavilion: Marco Polo documenta-performance Electronic Art II Etude for Piano Exposition of Music – Electronic Television Global Groove Good Morning, Mr. Orwell Hommage à John Cage: Music for Tape Recorder and Piano I-Ching/Et-Ching Kuba-TV Magnet TV Mayor Lindsay McLuhan Caged (in Electronic Art II) One for Violin Solo Participation TV performance in the Ramsbott home Random Access Music: Exposition of Music – Electronic Television Robot K-456 Schallplatten-Schaschlik: Exposition of Music – Electronic Television Simple As Boring As Possible Traitor, you left fluxus (Postcard to Nam June Paik) Triangle tv with microphone TV Set for your Mind TV Story Board TV-Buddha TV-Garden Primitive Music Video-Tape Monthly Magazine Wrap around the World Yellow Peril ! Zen for Film Zen for Head
Nam June Paik
«Buddha»
«In the variant of Buddha shown here, Paik merges elements form [... previously] series: the juxtaposition found in the 1974 performance piece has become a single figure of a Buddha, that has Paik‘s own facial features. This Buddha/Paik figure is no longer looking at its own image or at some other video on the monitor screen, but contemplates a (now, by implication, sacred) ‹Candle TV›. Of more significance, however, is the fact that, in this Buddha, we no longer encounter the juxtaposition of two ‹ready-mades›, but one specially prepared sculptural figure, modelled by Paikl himself, adopting the sculptural weight of bronze found in his TV Rodin. Accordingly, Paik not only ‹becomes› the Buddha, he also exhibits his own work as a sculptor: he is himself the ‹TV Rodin› of the twentieth century. [...]
Combining Western technology and Eastern patterns of thought, Paik establishes a connection between Buddhist beliefs concerning the reincarnation of all living beings and the electronic reroduction of what is always the same.»
(source: Dieter Daniels in: Heinrich Klotz (ed.), Contemporary Art, exhib. cat., Museum for Contemporary Art/Center of Art and Media, Karlsruhe, 1997, p. 204.)
