Surveying the work of video art pioneer Nam June Paik, this volume
highlights the artist's radical engagement with process.
Nam June Paik (1932-2006) broke new ground in late twentieth-century
art, working on a global stage to transform video into an art medium.
This book reflects on Paik's working method as well as the ideas and
materials that inspired his art practice. It was published on the
occasion of a two-part exhibition at Gagosian, New York, curated by John
G. Hanhardt, one of the foremost scholars of Paik's work. Nam June
Paik: Art in Process highlights the centrality of process and
exploration across Paik's career--through his pioneering manipulated
televisions from the early 1960s to live global satellite telecasts,
large-scale video sculptures, drawings, and the late-style painted
TVs--and provides an opportunity to follow Paik's lifelong engagement
with new media and the development of his own singular visual language.
Highlights include Paik's painted sections of the Berlin Wall (2005);
Beuys Projection (1990), Paik's powerful video interpretation of his
performance with Joseph Beuys in Tokyo; and his celebrated One Candle,
Candle Projection (1988-2000), a live video installation of
candlelight.
With essays by John G. Hanhardt and Gregory Zinman, the book features
extensive illustrations including numerous full-page plates and details,
a foldout of the score for Paik's Symphony for 20 Rooms (1961), as
well as rarely seen archival photographs by Peter Moore (1932-1993)
documenting Paik's early performances.
