Wuppertal, 1963

Nam June Paik and Wolf Vostell at Exposition of Music, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, 1963

This crumpled photocopy was pinned to my studio wall for years (the source book long forgotten). I dug it out tonight after seeing these amazing photos over at ROLU (thanks Matt!)

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Distorted TV set, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany, 1963 / excerpts from Paik's essay "afterlude to the exposition EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION, 1963, Galerie Parnass" published in The Fluxus Newspaper, 1964 / Beatles Electroniques / detail from letter to John Cage, 1964 / Charlotte Moorman with Chroma Key Glasses, 1971 / detail from letter to John Cage, 1965 / Dream TV, pencil drawing, 1973
from VIDEA 'N' VIDEOLOGY: NAM JUNE PAIK (1959-1973) edited by Judson Rosebush, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, and Galeria Bonino, NY, 1974

N.J.P.

self portrait, 1974

from Nam June Paik: Video Time - Video Space, Toni Stooss & Thomas Kellein, Harry A. Abrams Inc. , NY, 1993

related

Robert Rental's Paralysis/ACC single, Company-Regular Records, 1978

(featuring Nam June Paik's K-456 on the cover)

home-recorded psychedelic electronic industrial melancholia.