— A video program from the Nam June Paik Art Center's Collection.
As a collaboration with the Nam June Paik Art Center in Yongin (Korea) and the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Casa Asia presents the exhibition 'Nam June Paik - Radical Videos.'
As a collaboration with the Nam June Paik Art Center in Yongin (Korea) and the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Casa Asia presents the exhibition Nam June Paik – Radical Videos: A video program from the Nam June Paik Art Center’s Collection, within the framework of LOOP Festival. Paik was a visionary, a thinker and innovator, considered by everyone as the “father of videoart”. His use of technology blurred the lines between science, arts and pop culture through his genuine and innovative visual language. Curated by Sooyoung Lee, the exhibition is articulated through six emblematic works by Paik; some works that more than fifty years ago were able to...predict key issues such as our future embedded in technology, the globalization of capital, the internationalization of communication and mass media, as well as the impact of the Internet on society.
Curatorial Statement (Sooyoung Lee):
Today we can easily download and enjoy TV contents from a cloud storage on-line anytime we want. Or we can vote for our favorite contestants in a real time audition program on TV. In the early 60’s, however, when Nam June Paik was making his experiments using early versions of TV sets, which were highly expensive at the time, in Electronic music Studio of WDR in Cologne or in his secret studio, things were totally different. Back then television was a media-fool box, which simply received news programs produced by the government at certain times. He believed that the best way to use this media of TV was to communicate with it interactively, that is, to counterattack it. He thought that we should interfere with and hack into its coercive communication with our voice, movements and participation.
The radical video Nam June Paik envisioned would make TV dance and be free instead of being frozen within institutional, political and technological limitations. Nam June Paik composed videos as if he would symphony or pop music. He also interpreted and played television as he played a piano. The way he did so brought about not only physical transformations but also temporal and spatial variations. Furthermore, as we see in Global Groove, Nam June Paik suggested “video common market,” in which not only video arts, but cultural, educational and entertainment contents can freely communicate with one another. This is what he meant by “commons,” an ecological and economical sphere where we can freely circulate videos.
Radical Video represents the combined effort to create new artistic representations, for the artists, producers, and audiences. They personify the way to defy the political gravity by demonstrating new possibilities of embodied relationships between humans and technology. Nam June Paik once confessed that more and more he worked with TV, he thought of Neolith. Hence, our focus on Radical video-free and nonlinear art.
Entrada actualizada el el 27 abr de 2017
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