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19/7/2012

Nostalgia is an Extended Feedback

Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi-do

Shin Il Kim, Dan Graham, Lutz Dammbeck, Mary Bauermeister, Michael Snow, Valie Export , Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Sigeko Kubota, Antoni Muntaas, Olafur Eliasson , Lee Bul, Catherine Ikam

“Nostalgia is An Extended Feedback” is borrowed from the phrase that Paik himself used as a title for his essay written in 1992 and also for one of his artworks, which, alluding to the key concept of cybernetics, i.e., feedback, is intended to emphasize the importance of looking back upon the past. This exhibition aims to enable the nostalgia for Paik felt today amplify the feedback from yesterday so that it will give rise to feedforward for tomorrow.

Replete with nostalgia for Paik, this exhibition offers a selective overview of his cybernetic constellation. TV Garden, the iconic piece of the Nam June Paik Art Center, will be combined with One Candle, to become an arena of exploring his networked ecological thinking. Marco Polo, The Rehabilitation of Genghis Kan, and many more historical and contemporary figures in the form of Paik’s robot sculptures will be theatrically staged. What will also be highlighted are the cybernetic issues of spatio-temporal multiplication, noise-information dynamics, and man-machine interactivity, in such works as Swiss Clock, Zen for Film, Paik-Abe Video Synthesizer, Three Camera Participation, and some of the arresting videos and films that Paik produced. In addition, a separate section will offer a rare chance to discover Paik’s drawings, documents and photographs through archival displays and tablet computers.

“Cybernated art is very important, but art for cybernated life is more important, and the latter need not be cybernated.” This is from the often quoted of Paik’s short manifesto. The ways Paik’s work resonates with a world of cyborg and cyberspace are brought into bold relief by the works of present-day media artists. Among others are Mary Bauermeister’s Secret Signs, Lutz Dammbeck’s The Net: The Unabomber, LSD and the Internet, Olafur Eliasson’s Your Uncertain Shadow, Catherine Ikam and Louis Fléri’s Fragments of an Archetype, Antoni Muntadas’s The File Room, and Bill Viola’s Ancient of Days. These artists are joined by Peter Campus, Valie Export, Dan Graham, Shinil Kim, and Lee Bul, whose work will all enrich the exhibition in terms of raising a question as to changing perceptions of realities in the technology-driven culture.

Paik’s statement about cybernated art and life ends with “We are in open circuits.” Nam June Paik Art Center this year takes upon itself the task of ‘open circuits,’ into which different voices can be fed and diverse feedbacks can be generated. To achieve this, a whole series of various events alongside the exhibition are organized too.

Opening performances will take place featuring Fluxus artist Takehisa Kosugi and Gayageum musician Byungki Hwang. There will be a screening program of Paik’s major videos on a huge media façade in Seoul every mid-summer night. Special lecture series runs throughout the year, whose speakers are primarily long-time collaborators with Paik, such as Wulf Herzogenrath, former director of Kunsthalle Bremen, and technicians Jochen Saueracker and Jungsung Lee. What is also not to be lost is a range of education programs, and an annual symposium is definitely part of the commemorative schedule.

For this special year, the interior of Nam June Paik Art Center is refurbished as well. The renovated “house where Nam June Paik lives on,” as Paik himself dubbed the Nam June Paik Art Center, will welcome visitors with ‘his’ open arms where Paik’s quest for open circuits is set in motion

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Doug Aitken awarded the 2012 Nam June Paik Art Center Prize

Nam June Paik Art Center is delighted to announce that Doug Aitken has been selected as the solo recipient of the 2012 Nam June Paik Art Center Prize for the considerable contribution his experimental use of diverse media and forms of installation have made to the field of art. Over the course of his artistic career, Aitken's enthusiastic pursuit of experimentalism and interdisciplinary collaboration have resulted in an ingenious reestablishment of media anchored on the humanistic appropriation of technology, profound insight into the role of media in art. Aitken's multi-dimensional interdisciplinary practice and collaborations open up 'a world where time, space, and memory are fluid concepts,' an attitude that resonates impressively with Nam June Paik's multidisciplinary practices.

Aitken was attributed this award following deliberations by the 2012 Nam June Paik Art Center Prize nominating committee that counted on the participation of Stephanie Rosenthal, Chief Curator, Hayward Gallery; Tobias Berger, Curator, M+ Museum for Visual Arts and Culture; Sook-Kyung Lee, Curator, Tate Liverpool; Jee-Sook Baek, Director, Atelier Hermes; and Seong Hee Kim, Director, Festival Bo:m. The final selection was deliberated by Ra-Young Hong, Deputy Director, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art; Bart de Baere, Director, MuHKA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp; and Tae-Hi Kang, Professor, Korea National University of Arts. The jurors stated that their selection of Doug Aitken for the award reflected "how the artist's attitude and achievements can be characterized above all by an experimentalism that facilitates an extension of the possibilities of the media. Accomplishing this by his ability to combine and integrate various disciplines, the artist redefines the significance of the role of art through collaborations with people working in different fields. We found that this commitment to an artistic methodology that pursues creativity through interdisciplinary collaboration converges with the artistic heritage of Paik and contributes to expanding the field of art."

Established in 2009, the Nam June Paik Art Center Prize aims to acknowledge artists who, like Paik, have opened up new horizons and had a tremendous impact in the field of art through their relentlessly experimental attitudes and ground breaking works. Since its inception, the prize has been awarded to artists and theorists whose works echoes Paik's attitude of consilience and interdisciplinarity to propose new realms for both artistic practice and technologies. The 2009 Prize was awarded to four artists—Seung-Taek Lee, Eun-Me Ahn, Ceal Floyer, and Robert Adrian X. The recipient of the 2010 prize was the academic Bruno Latour.

From its third edition the Nam June Paik Art Center Prize has been restructured to focus rather on those whose works are mainly conducted within the field of artistic practice. In addition, the Prize will operate in two phases: announcement of the recipient will be made in even-numbered years and an exhibition of the acknowledged artists work held in odd-numbered years. The process to determine the recipient entails a nomination committee consisting of five international experts that proposes a short list of ten artists. A final jury of three members then selects a single artist as the laureate.

The 2012 Nam June Paik Art Center Prize ceremony will be held at Nam June Paik Art Center at 5pm on July 20, 2012 in celebration of the eightieth anniversary of Paik's birth. The honoree will be presented with the cash award and invited to have a solo exhibition in the second half of 2013. Alongside the prize ceremony, there will be the opening reception of the Nostalgia Is an Extended Feedback exhibition.

Prize ceremony: Friday, July 20, 2012 at 5pm

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Adults: 4,000 won
Students: 2,000 won

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