
Video Gallery lll
In conjunction with the exhibition Play It Again, Paik, Nam June Paik Art Center presents Random Access Hall screenings. The exhibition is an exhibition that showcases interview footage of Nam June Paik from the video archive of the Nam June Paik Art center alongside his artworks. In the Random Access Hall, you can watch the original video of the interviews featured in the exhibition.
The third screening program is Video Gallery III, aired by WNET, a television station in New York. This program introduces works by video artists who were actively working in New York during the 1970s, vividly conveying the experimental spirit of video art. Host Russell Connor comments that ““Video art is so new, so various, so awesome in potential, and so bursting with vitality in many quarters of the globe that it is folly, perhaps harmful folly, to try to package and label it at this stage.” emphasizing the possibilities and diversity of this new form. The program features works by artists such as William Wegman, Andy Mann, Juan Downey, Peter Campus, Nam June Paik, Beryl Korot, and Shigeko Kubota, who were all actively working in New York at the time. Among them, Nam June Paik demonstrates how his work Moon Is the Oldest TV, installed at the René Block Gallery, operates. Standing behind a cathode-ray television, Paik manipulates the images appearing on screen by adjusting devices like a yoke. At the end of the program, Candle TV is introduced, showing that video art can be realized even without cameras, videotapes, or monitors. Paik lights a candle and places it inside the television set, bringing the video to a close. Video Gallery III has been edited into this exhibition in the form of videos of Moon Is the Oldest TV and Candle TV.
Video Gallery III