Interview Project
Nam June Paik Art Center Interviews is an oral history research project exploring Paik’s life and art. NJP Art Center has collected memories on Paik in form of interviews from Paik’s colleagues and friends since 2008. Interviewees include Ben Patterson, Christo, Alison Knowles, Russell Connor, Mary Bauermeister, Shuya Abe, Takehisa Kosugi, Lee Jung Sung and among others. Nam June Paik Art Center Interviews publish monograph series comprising interview scripts. Highlights of publication include Wulf Herzogenrath (2012), who served as director of the Kunsthalle Bremen, Paik’s fellow artist Peter Brötzmann and Takehisa Kosugi (2014), Paik’s technicians Shuya Abe and Jung Sung Lee (2016), and media art professionals in France (2018). Letters, Mary Bauermeister (2015) that includes letters between Paik and Bauermeister was published in a different format. Interview with media art conservations specialists together with texts on the topic of media art (2013) and TV Lab (2020), recording Paik’s collaborating with public broadcasting networks in the US were also published.