Nam June Paik Buddha Watching Tv. By setting it up this way the viewer is watching the fish and the tv at the same time. Tv buddha featured an eighteenth century buddha watching an image of his own on the television.
Tv buddha (1974) closed circuit video installation, bronze sculpture. Nam june paik has always been fascinated with antiques, be it antique buddhas, antique scrolls, or, as described in a 1967 letter to john cage, electronic antique art. With buddha watching the tv and watching himself at the same time, he helps us to realise that our body merges with the nature in the same way it merges with technology.
Shortly Before The Opening, He Hit Upon The Idea Of Making A Tv Viewer Out Of An Antique Buddha Statue Once Purchased As An Investment.
2001 electronic superhighway is my favorite piece of nam june paik’s art that i have seen so far. An antique buddha statue was put on the opposite side of the tv set and one video camera behind the tv records the statue. By setting it up this way the viewer is watching the fish and the tv at the same time.
He Was A Conceptual Artist Who Was Involved With The Fluxus Movement.
This is a short video review of the nam june paik exhibition at tate modern from 17 october 2019 to 9 february 2020bought to you by visiting london guide.co. 60 x 200 x 80 x 3.5cm. Here a stone buddha head from indonesia, partially embedded in dirt and signed dramatically across the back by paik in chinese and english, appears to observe itself on television.
Tv Buddha Featured An Eighteenth Century Buddha Watching An Image Of His Own On The Television.
58 x 64 x 25 cm. Depicting an array of messages from era to era. Paik created the original concept in 1974 and made this example in 1997.
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Black and white, silent demensions vary with installation. Paik embraces chaos and technology all together in his zen driven artistic experimentation. Nam june paik pickaxed pianos, dunked cellists in water, and found strange uses for defunct tellies.
Tv Buddha Was One Of The Works That Nam June Paik Commented On In The Course Of His Career.
This artwork installation (as seen in the image above) consists of a buddha statue. The idea was that you could go and interact with it. This article puts forth a specifically buddhist interpretation of nam june paik's tv buddha (1974), by going beyond the general references to (mainly.
