The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 26, 2024
Global Groove
1973
Location: not on view
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This video includes a performance by the American cellist Charlotte Moorman playing Nam June Paik's TV Cello (1971).Description
This upbeat, experimental video opens with a couple dancing to Mitch Ryder’s “Devil with a Blue Dress On,” interspersed with scenes of a traditional Korean fan dance. While the abrupt switching between scenes and music creates an evocative “collage” of moving imagery, the fast, energetic pace creates a vision of a futuristic media landscape. Paik once described his works that manipulate TV monitors and distort their images—new materials and approaches at that time—“I use technology in order to hate it properly.”- –2020(Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)2020–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- {{cite web|title=Global Groove|url=false|author=Nam June Paik|year=1973|access-date=26 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.268