r.i.p. nam june paik

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boo.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

sad. confirmation? (not that i'm doubting you, mind.)

― james van der beek (dubplatestyle), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Aw man. He made robots that went around pooping out beans.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:15 (twenty years ago)

And he cut off John Cage's tie with scissors, didn't he?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

nevermind, just saw it on msnbc

― james van der beek (dubplatestyle), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Seriously?

RIP! :(

― Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/past_exhibitions/paik/images/paikcmoorman.jpg

― HELLFAUCET (FAGZ0RD OF THE LAKES), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

balls...

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.paikstudios.com/

it confirms it on his official website.

― HELLFAUCET (FAGZ0RD OF THE LAKES), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

In the Étude for Pianoforte, whose premiere was in Mary Bauermeister's studio, Paik played some Chopin on the piano, broke off weeping, and got up and threw himself on the innards of another eviscerated piano that lay scattered on the floor. He then picked up a wickedly long pair of scissors and leaped down to where Cage, the pianist David Tudor and Karlheinz Stockhausen were sitting in the front row. He removed Cage's suit jacket and started to slash away at his shirt with the scissors. After doing so, he poured a bottle of shampoo over Cage's head and also over David Tudor's. As Stockhausen edged nervously away, Paik shouted "Not for you!".

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:27 (twenty years ago)

― Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:33 (twenty years ago)

AWESOME

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:34 (twenty years ago)

http://sweetbooks.com/images/paik_sexm.jpg

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

(that's the one where she was arrested for indecent exposure)

http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/opera-sextronique/

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

BUMMER DOOD.

― ddb (ddb), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

& here's a link to a bigger picture so you can read the text or just swoon on moorman: http://sweetbooks.com/images/paik_sex.jpg

though there's a DVD with some of Paik's 70's video films for public access tv with moorman doing the TV Bra that are kind of terrifying. my guess: at least one 750ml bottle of vodka.

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 30 January 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Very sad.
Nam June Paik made this art work after meeting Bill Clinton at White house. When he stood up to shake hands with Bill Clinton at the White House, his pants was taken off suddenly. About this happening, many people assumed it was intentional act. But who knows? any way that time, Hakuda Ken said Bill Clinton didn't express anything, but Hillary Cliton was very angry about that.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 January 2006 22:09 (twenty years ago)

aw man :(

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Monday, 30 January 2006 22:13 (twenty years ago)

:-(

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 30 January 2006 22:18 (twenty years ago)

i will be pouring a 40oz for paik tonight

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 00:34 (twenty years ago)

no, you should smash a TV

― ziti sanskrit (sanskrit), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 01:32 (twenty years ago)

he was in bad shape for several years, kidney troubles and confined to wheelchair. hopefully his passing was relatively painless..

― ziti sanskrit (sanskrit), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 01:35 (twenty years ago)

heres the nyt obit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/arts/design/31paik.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

didn't know he coined the term "information superhighway"

if i had a cello and a clear plastic dress I'd pay tribute. RIP

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

CANT WAIT TO GO TO INTRO TO VIDEWO ART ON THURSDAY LOL!!!!!!!

― VIDEO STRESS (blastocyst), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Guess all those chelsea art galleries are gonna have their US flags at half mast......

― VIDEO STRESS (blastocyst), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

jamming "works 1958.1979" right now.

i doubt much paik stuff is in private collections, seems like the kind of large-scale stuff that only institutions could afford.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

seven years pass...

this dude's collection at the smithsonian is so incredible, a group of civil war reenactors were walking thru when I was there which prob made it even better but

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 17:05 (thirteen years ago)

ya that's easily one of the top 5 art exhibitions I've ever seen

― ferreira rocher (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 17:05 (thirteen years ago)

Oh man, trip to visit the folks in DC is in order.

― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 17:09 (thirteen years ago)

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a6/Sprad/Scores_NamJunePaik_DangerMusik_zpsd5647f51.png

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 18:01 (thirteen years ago)

awesome

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 21:32 (thirteen years ago)

sounds like an elaborate way of saying "fuck off"

― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 21:37 (thirteen years ago)

dude is dope

― the 'dirty sprite' is implied (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 22:45 (thirteen years ago)

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