Word: paik
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That bracing ingenuity marks many of AMMI's exhibits. Nam June Paik's video installation is an automobile frame on which are mounted 65 screens, each strobing scenes of Bonnie and Clyde or Abbott and Costello or any of a hundred other images. AMMI's apex is Tut's Fever, an Egyptian-style movie palace conceived by Artists Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong. Grooms' impish sculptures staff the theater: Theda Bara sits in the box office; Mae West sells you candy; Mickey Rooney is the usher; a sarcophagus creaks open to reveal the late James Dean. In the theater auditorium...
...AMMI exudes the comfortable musk of a neighborhood Bijou miraculously restored, London's MOMI has eyes to play the Palladium. Not that the two institutions have radically different means or ends. Both occupy about 9,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space. Both display a Nam June Paik piece, clips from the compilation film Precious Images, and a model of a drive-in theater. Both have been ages in the planning, though MOMI's 1978 prospectus preceded AMMI's by three years, and a trace of bantering rancor shows through the Brits' geniality toward their upstart colonial rival. Perhaps because MOMI...
...works, such as her two-evening epic United States, Parts I-IV (1983) or her 1985 stage show Home of the Brave, play off the television culture that gave them birth. Indeed, some avantgardists have made the television screen their preferred medium, like Korean-born Video Artist Nam June Paik, who amasses hundreds of video monitors in assemblages. When Byrne, driving along the Texas highways in his red 1985 Chrysler Le Baron convertible in True Stories, turns to the camera and exclaims, "Radio reception is great here!" his excitement is real. Anyone born after 1950 understands the synergy between rock...
...ultra-high-frequency father of video art, Nam June Paik, is understandably proud of his latest brainchild for the electronic age. This week public television will air Bye Bye Kipling, a 90-minute avant-garde variety special, broadcast live from three countries. Intended as a high- resolution refutation of Kipling's "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet," the show will feature a sampler of art, music and sports. Painter Keith Haring, Musicians Philip Glass and Lou Reed and a member of Paik's "family" of video robots will appear in Manhattan, Architect Arata...
...indecision ended in 1976, when Paik became a U.S. citizen. He had grown ) comfortable with the "playfulness and childish ideas" of his newfound land. He also sees signs that his adopted country may be catching up with him. "Rock videos very interesting," he says. "Some of them are getting so good they're scaring me." And he is sure that coming to the U.S. changed his career. "America give me access to high tech," he says. "Here I get a sense of what high-tech equipment can do to sensibility. American kids have moved from Sesame Street through The Electric...