1.4 Tribute: Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik

TV Garden+Video Fish+Electronic Opera #1

As a tribute to Korean-American artist Nam June Paik, I tried to recreate and combine three of his projects. I had old parts scattered of an old laptop and I used the fallen apart screen to create a fake TV Vegetable or Grocery as a remembrance to TV Garden. Next,  in remembrance of TV Fish(Video Fish), I created a fake aquarium, with pebbles and cherry tomatoes, instead of real fishes, as I don't have real fishes, other than some frozen dead shrimps inside my refrigerator. Finally, I tried to recreate(with digital graphics), the dancing woman scene from Electronic Opera #1. The window on my living room due to adequate sun, created a natural projection and holding a camera on one hand, I tried to make a small performance with my shadow. I split it in to three parts and three colors in memory of the dancing woman and then I played it on the TV screen(real TV this time) and captured the performative reflection on the fake aquarium of my TV vegetable.