Talbot Rice Gallery EVENTS

10 October | 7pm There Is No Rewind | an evening of artist performances, music and video screenings Ed Atkins | Dara Birnbaum | Grey Area | Michelle Hannah | Torsten Lauschmann | Stephanie Mann | Jillian Mayer | Craig Mulholland | Angelo Picozzi | Nicolas Provost | Semiconductor | Simon Shaw-Miller | Richard Sides Tickets £4, to book: http://thereisnorewind.eventbrite.co.uk Adopting Paik’s creative vision for technology as a transitory and implacable force for social change, but distanced from the optimistic artistic avant-garde that propelled it, There is no rewind proffers images of an ever-unfolding present, populated by surrogates, phantoms, hollow polygons and often dystopic environments. Including video screenings and live performances, recreations of seminal experimental music pieces and academic ruminations on Paik’s artistic lineage, the evening comprises of a complex series of experiences and ideas. The present moment is always teaming, expansive and ever-changing, perhaps it cannot be rationally grasped, but we must engage with the direction we are headed in because there is no rewind.

My experimental TV is not always interesting but not always uninteresting like nature, which is beautiful, not because it changes b e a u t i f u l l y, Transmitted Live: but simply because it c h a n g e s. Paik - 1964 Resounds For full updated details visit: www.trg.ed.ac.uk 9 August – 19 October 2013

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10 August | 12pm No other artist has had greater influence on the use of technology in art than Curators’ Talk Nam June Paik (1932 – 2006). A genuine pioneer and true visionary, he Pat Fisher, Principal Curator, Talbot Rice Gallery will be in conversation with curators Seong Eun Kim, Chaeyoung Lee and archivist Sang Ae Park anticipated through his art and writing so much of what we now understand to from the Nam June Paik Art Center to discuss the work of Nam June Paik. They will consider Paik's legacy as a revolutionary boundary breaker and be life in the 21st Century, from multi-channel television and satellite broadcasts prophetic thinker who linked art and technology, music and visual art, electronics and the humanities. to the current trend towards film and video within Fine Art practice.

Opening Weekend Performances For Edinburgh International Festival 2013 Talbot Rice Gallery is proud to present the 9 August | 2pm first ever Nam June Paik exhibition in Scotland. A catalogue featuring a new essay Takehisa Kosugi (b.1938, Japan), long-time friend and collaborator with Paik, performs Op Music, his compositions for live-electronics that were by exhibition co-curator Seong Eun Kim of the Nam June Paik Art Center is commissioned for the Dance Company. Okkyung Lee (b.1975, Korea) creates new interpretations of classical cello pieces to available to purchase from the Reception Desk on Level 2. raise questions about the beauty intrinsic to music. Her performance The Swan: Replay in Polyester pays direct homage to Paik’s performance collaborations with .

10 August | 2pm Byungjun Kwon (b.1971, Korea) creates his own electronic instruments and performance tools. His piece This is Me draws on the technology of face mapping and morphing, projecting images created live onto his own face in real time. Haroon Mirza (b. 1977, UK) deploys old and worn household items and electronic devices to create temporal installation and performance works. The Calling, derived from his previous work Adhan, investigates the seductive qualities of sounds and music.

A documentary video of all the performances is available to view in the Education Room on Level 3

The Space Commissions In collaboration with Talbot Rice Gallery, The Space have commissioned 4 Scottish-based artists to create new video works inspired by or in the spirit of Nam June Paik. The finished works by artists Adam Gierasimiuk, Torsten Lauschmann, Stephanie Mann and Craig Mulholland will be screened in the Old College Quad throughout August and hosted on The Space website: www.thespace.org

The Space is a digital arts service, developed by Arts Council England in partnership with the BBC, designed to change the way people can connect Exhibition Open with and experience the arts. It provides live, free and on demand access to the work of the UK’s greatest artists and arts organisations. August | Daily, 10am – 5pm September & October | Tues – Sat, 10am – 5pm

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www.facebook.co.uk/talbotricegallery @talbotrice75 #paiktalbotrice LIST OF WORKS PAIK-ABE SYNTHESIZER ROOM GEORGIAN GALLERY EDUCATION ROOM

29. Global Groove 1973. Video, colour, 28:39 Assorted Nam June Paik catalogues and reading material 15. MIT Interview with Fred Barzyk and David Atwood (excerpt) 1991. MAIN GALLERY Video, colour, 11:45 30. Video Chandelier No.1 1989. Video Sculpture Video documentation of Opening Weekend Performance 1. Beethoven 2001. Video Sculpture 16. Paik-Abe Video Synthesizer 1972 [1969] programme (see reverse for full details). Video, colour, 30 31. (in corridor) Courtesy of the Zabludowicz Art Trust, London 17. Video Commune: Beatles from Beginning to End (excerpt) 1970. (top) July 20 1985. Poster Produced by Nam June Paik Art Center, 2013 Video, colour, 12:58 2. Merce by Merce by Paik, Part One (excerpt) 1978. Video, colour, silent, 07:10 (bottom) Autobiography Inside Womb 1981. Drawings on newspaper 18. Letter from Nam June Paik to Shuya Abe 1969 3. Fontainebleau 1988. Video Sculpture (photographic reproduction) 19. (in frame) Courtesy of Dieter and Si Rosenkranz Collection, Berlin 4. MS-Fluxussus (Symphony No.7) 1980. Swimming violin with engine, remote control. Photographs (c) Erik Andersch (top) Greeting card from Nam June Paik to Shuya Abe's Wife, 1971 (bottom) Nam June Paik with the video synthesizer in the WNET studio, 5. (clockwise from top) New York, 1974. Colour Photographs All works courtesy of the Nam June Paik Art Center (c) Nam June Paik Estate unless Hommage à 1958-62 otherwise stated Random Access 1967-68 20. Assorted Nam June Paik ephemera Private Collection (c) Paul Robertson Symphony No.5 1976 [1965] English Translation available in the Education Room

Symphony No.6 1980 UPPER GALLERY

6. (from top) EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISIONS Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman with TV Bra for Living Sculpture 1969. 21. Participation TV 1998 [1963] Photograph, Peter Moore (c) Estate of Peter Moore/VAGA, New York 22. Nixon TV 2002 [1965] Charlotte Moorman's TV Cello performance for Music of Time: Encounter with Korea at WDR, Cologne 1980. 23. Crown TV 1999 [1965] 29 Photograph (c) Erik Andersch 24. Nam June Paik with Magnet TV in his Canal Street studio, New York 1965. EDUCATION 7. A New Design for TV Chair 1973. Silkscreen Print Photograph, Peter Moore (c) Estate of Peter Moore/VAGA, New York ROOM

8. (above lift) 25. Magnet TV 1969 [1965] ROUND ROOM Hand and Face 1961. Video, black & white, silent, 02:00 26. (clockwise from left) 9. Schubert 2001. Video Sculpture Afterlude to the EXPOSITION of EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION 1964. Publication 10. Nam June Paik: Werke 1946-1976 Musik--Video 1976. 30 Exhibition Poster Video Signal Flow for Participation TV undated. Drawing by Shuya Abe 27 Power Line Flow Diagram for Participation TV 2001. Drawing by Shuya Abe 28 11. Piano Concert (excerpt) 1994. Video, colour, 05:00 BALCONY Part of the multimedia arts festival SeOUL NYmAX: A Celebration of Arts Electronic TV & Color TV Experiment 1964. Publication without Borders in Anthology Film Archives, New York STUDIO MATERIALS 12. Klavier Integral in Exposition of Music – Electronic Television 1963. STUDIO MATERIALS 26 Photograph (c) Manfred Montwé Collection of objects from Nam June Paik’s Grand Steet and Broome Street 13. Electronic Opera No.2 1972. Video, colour, 07:28 studios in New York 25 14. TV Cello 1999. Video Sculpture (wall photograph) 24 Courtesy of the Art Center Nabi, Seoul 31 Reconstruction of Nam June Paik's Broome Street studio in the Nam June EXPERIMENTAL Paik Art Center, Korea TELEVISIONS

VIDEO LOUNGE (from left to right) 23 22 21 BALCONY Opera Sextronique 1967. Video, colour, silent, 04:50 & TV Cello Premiere VIDEO LOUNGE 2 1971. Video, colour, silent, 09:00 27. Exposition of Music – Electronic Television 1963 3 6 7 Photographic documentation (c) Manfred Montwé 5 A Tribute to John Cage 1973. Video, colour, 29:17 Detailed information available in the Education Room 4 8 Suite 212 1975. Video, colour, 4 selections (I) 28. Exposition of Music – Electronic Television 1963, 1992 1 Suite 212 1975. Video, colour, 4 selections (II) Exhibition Posters 14 9 PAIK-ABE SYNTHESIZER Merce by Merce by Paik, Part One & Two 1978. Video, colour, 29:03 15 ROUND ROOM 20 Documenta 6 Satellite Telecast 1977. Video, colour, 29:11 10 19 16 11 18 17 TV Buddha 2002 [1974]. Video Sculpture 1313 12 1211 Detailed information available in the Education Room