The satellite project Good Morning Mr. Orwell was a live show broadcast on January 1, 1984, in the US, France, South Korea, and Germany. Planned by Paik, the satellite show involved the cooperation of broadcasting stations in each city, including the U.S. public station WNET, and artists from all around the world, It featured performances by renowned artists of the time such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Allen Ginsberg, Charlotte Moorman, as well as music videos of Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel, Oingo Boingo.

Here is a talk with the participating artists Balming Tiger and Sungsil Ryu in conjunction with the exhibition Wake Up! It’s 2024, commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Good Morning Mr.Orwell. The talk will include stories about their new work commissioned by Nam June Paik Art Center, SARANGHAEYO ART LIVE, as an homage to Good Morning Mr. Orwell, the form of live streaming and the museum exhibition. We hope you will join us for this talk, which will take a closer look at the collaborations and vision of artists practice in music, dance, and contemporary art.

Artists

Balming Tiger is an alternative K-pop group and an Asian art culture & collective. They aim to represent today’s younger generation while projecting the times into their work. In 2023, Rolling Stone magazine named Balming Tiger one of the musicians to follow that year, and the band completed a world tour that was inaugurated with the Fuji Rock Festival. Since then, they won the Newcomer of the Year at the European Festival Awards and released a short film, Moving Forward, based on their first album, January Never Dies.

Sungsil Ryu is an artist based in South Korea who focuses on various events generated by collisions between the indigeneity of Korea and neoliberalism. Ryu graduated from Seoul National University in 2018 and completed coursework toward a master’s degree in sculpture at the same university. Between 2018 and 2020, Ryu appeared as the fictional streamer Cherry Jang in CHERRY BOMB, which parodied the way online streamers produce content and held an online solo exhibition titled Bigking Travel 2020. Ryu won the Hermès Foundation Missulsang in 2021 and held her solo exhibition, The Burning Love Song, at the Atelier Hermès in 2022.