Televisions lie around as if blossoming, in this dense garden of real plants and bushes. Global Groove (1973) is played on the monitors, which consists of dazzling sequences of music and dance from different parts of the world, from diverse types of art and culture, born out of Nam June Paik’s typical style of editing. Without a master narrative that weaves the disparate elements, this video seems to recommend a simple and intuitive viewing. TV monitors in TV Garden reveal their presence by being placed at an unusual angle. Viewers are led to look downward at the television monitors facing upward or lying on the side slantingly; rather than looking at a single monitor, viewers watch multiple monitors at the same time. The natural environment, which is artificially created and maintained inside the museum, form an organic space with television sets that represent technology, which is often regarded as opposite to nature. Here electronic images, coming from the television monitors and traveling through the leaves to the video’s musical rhythms, become part of the ecological space, in which Paik made the stimuli of pixels and the greens of foliage dance together in a constantly changing flux.
- Artist
- Nam June Paik
- Date
- 1974(2002)
- Classifications
- sculpture·installation , video
- Medium
- CRT TV sets, LCD TV sets, live plants, amplifiers, video distributor, speakers, 1-channel video, Global Groove, color, sound
- Dimensions
- variable
- Collection No
- 006