Screening
Nam June Paik’s Radical Fun
Thursday, June 30, 2022, 7:30pm
Anthology Film Archives, New York
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Join us for a video program that brings together a selection of Nam June Paik’s analog video works along with Internet-era works by artists including Ilana Harris-Babou, Frank Heath, Maggie Lee, Guthrie Lonergan, LoVid, and Martine Syms. The selection is curated by Rebecca Cleman, executive director at Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), and copresented by Anthology Film Archives, EAI, and Gagosian, on the occasion of Art in Process, a two-part survey of works by Paik at Gagosian, New York.
Since the early 1960s, Paik’s prescient thinking about how artists can exploit television and computer technology has resonated through generations, particularly with regard to his mischievous opposition to industry conformity. His strongly held belief in the radical potential of fun, and his understanding of technological innovation as nurturing artistic innovation, have remained relevant through profound changes in communication platforms. To attend the event, purchase tickets at ticketing.uswest.veezi.com.
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Nam June Paik, Edited for Television, 1975 (still) © Nam June Paik Estate. Photo: courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix
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Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut
January 18–21, 2024, 2pm daily
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Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut’s video Waiting for Commercials, 1966–72 (1992) features in ART SG FILM 2024, a program within the fair dedicated to showcasing new and experimental filmmaking practices, as well as art historically resonant works, particularly by artists and practitioners from around the Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific regions. Curated by Sam I-shan and copresented with the ArtScience Museum, this year’s program, Embodied Presences, gathers works addressing the body’s expressive potential. Organized into four hour-long daily screenings—Movement in Space (11am), Voice and Being (12:30pm), The Worldly and Otherworldly (2pm), and Future Shock: The End of Eternity (3:30pm)—it plays at ArtScience Museum’s cinema. Included in The Worldly and Otherworldly, Waiting for Commercials, 1966–72, an uproarious compilation of Japanese TV ads, is an early example of Paik’s use of appropriated broadcast imagery and was originally produced to accompany a performance work of the same title featuring Charlotte Moorman. The event is free to attend on a first-come, first-served basis.
Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut, Waiting for Commercials, 1966–72, 1992 (still) © Nam June Paik Estate and © Estate of Jud Yalkut. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
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