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Categories: Action | Installation | Video
Keywords: Exhibition | Closed-Circuit | Object
Relevant passages:
Heike Helfert «Technological Constructions of Space-Time
Aspects of Perception»
Works by Nam June Paik:
Action with a violin on a string (staged during «Exposition of Music – Electronic Television»)
Baroque Laser Buddha 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-Garden Primitive Music Video-Tape Monthly Magazine Wrap around the World Yellow Peril ! Zen for Film Zen for Head
Nam June Paik
«TV-Buddha»
Paik's possibly most famous video work was produced as a gap-filler for an empty wall in his fourth show in the Galeria Bonino, New York. Shortly before the opening, he hit upon the idea of making a TV viewer out of an antique Buddha statue once purchased as an investment. The subsequent addition of a video camera meant the Buddha now watched his videotaped image on the screen opposite – past and present gaze upon each other in an encounter between Oriental deity and Western media.
During the 'Projekt '74' exhibition in Cologne, Paik took the Buddha’s place in his recent creation, suggesting the implicit antithesis between transcendentalism and technology was equally present in his own personality.
