Saturday 10 June 2006, 10.00

Programme duration 12 hrs

Visionary artist Nam June Paik died earlier this year at the age of 73. Over the course of 12 hours, this screening features more than 40 of Paik's extraordinary video works dating from 1965 to 2000, which are shown in reverse chronological order.

Works to be screened include his classic television collages, which feature collaborations with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Allen Ginsberg, Joseph Beuys and Charlotte Moorman. Highlights include his earliest video-film experiments and a rare screening of 9/23/69 (1969), Paik's stunning 80-minute opus of electronic synthesis.

Paik's works in performance, electronic music, sculpture and multimedia installation were groundbreaking and influential, and his seminal body of videotapes helped to radically redefine the role of moving image media in contemporary art.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£10 (£8 concessions), booking recommended

    

Programme:

10.00

Analogue Assemblage, 2000, 2:08 min, colour

Tiger Lives, 1999, 45 min, colour

11.00

"Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman, 1995, 29 min, colour

A Tale of Two Cities, 1992, 60 sec, colour

MAJORCA - fantasia, 1989, 4:52 min, colour

Living with the Living Theatre, 1989, 28:30 min, colour

Butterfly, 1986, 2:03 min, colour

12.00

Vusac - NY, 1984, 27:10 min, colour

Good Morning Mr. Orwell, 1984, 30 min, colour

13.00

Allan 'n' Allen's Complaint, 1982, 28:33 min, colour

My Mix '81, 1981, 24:50 min, colour

Lake Placid '80, 1980, 3:49 min, colour

14.00

You Can't Lick Stamps in China, 1978, 28:34 min, colour

Merce by Merce by Paik, 1978, 28:45 min, colour

15.00

Media Shuttle: Moscow/New York, 1978, 28:11 min

Documenta 6 Satellite Telecast (Excerpt), 1977, 12 min

16.00

Guadalcanal Requiem, 1977, re-edited 1979, 28:33 min, colour

Nam June Paik: Edited for Television, 1975, 28:14 min, black and white and colour

Violin Dragging, Brooklyn, NY, 1975, 1:37 min, colour

17.00

Suite 212, 1975, re-edited 1977, 30:23 min, colour

A Tribute to John Cage, 1973, re-edited 1976, 29:02 min, colour

18.00

Global Groove, 1973, 28:30 min, colour

Electronic Opera #2 (From Video Variations, WGBH), 1972. 7:30 min, colour

Electronic Yoga, 1972–92, 7:30 min, black and white and colour

Waiting for Commercials, 1972, 6:45 min, colour

TV Bed, The Everson Museum of Art, 1972, 1:10 min, black and white

TV Cello Premiere, 1971, 7:25 min, colour, silent

19.00

Video Commune (Beatles from Beginning to End), 1970–92, 8:36 min, colour, silent

9/23/69: Experiment with David Atwood, 1969, 80 min, colour

Electronic Opera #1 (From The Medium is the Medium, WGBH), 1972, 4 min, colour

Electronic Moon No. 2, 1969, 4:30 min, colour

Cinéma Metaphysique: Nos. 2, 3 and 4, 1967–72, 8:39 min, black and white

Video Tape Study No. 3, 1967–69, 4 min, black and white

21.00

Film Video Works #3, 1967–69, 5:36 min, black and white and colour

Beatles Electroniques, 1966–69, 3 min, black and white and colour

Digital Experiment at Bell Labs, 1966, 4 min, black and white, silent

Electronic Fables, 1965–72, 8:45 min, bblack and white and colour

Early Color TV Manipulations, 1965–71, 5:18, colour, silent

Button Happening, 1965, 2 min, black and white, silent

Hand and Face, 1961, 1:42 min, black and white, silent

This event is related to the Kandinsky: The Path to Abstraction exhibition