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1976Charlotte Moorman and Recitals (21 & 26 March 1976) Recitals (1 & 7 April 1976) Special events: Flying cello Cello sonata Candy Ice music for Sydney Sky kiss
Download education notes (PDF 8pp) Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. Visit the Adobe website to download a free copy. Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence. Nam June Paik with Charlotte Moorman, ‘Video, Vidiot, Videology’ in Gregory Battock (ed), New artists video: a critical anthology, EP Dutton, New York 1978 |  For their Kaldor project in 1976, Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman presented a series of more than 40 performances along with an exhibition of some of Paik’s video sculptures and drawings, and documentation from their past performance events. The exhibition was shown at the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide and the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney, while the performances – written by Paik and their contemporaries including Joseph Beuys, John Cage and Yoko Ono – occurred at a range of venues in the two cities. Among the performances that attracted the most public and media attention was Moorman floating above the Sydney Opera House forecourt and 2000 spectators, suspended by weather balloons, in Jim McWilliams’ Sky kiss. In another vertiginous McWilliams’ work, Moorman swung through the air above Adelaide’s Elder Park on a trapeze, while on the roofs of the Adelaide Festival Theatre and of the Art Gallery of NSW, she performed Mieko Shiomi’s Cello sonata. A highlight of that year's Adelaide Festival program (repeated in Sydney later) was Moorman performing naked with a cello carved from a block of ice, which slowly melted away. And she was naked again, but covered in chocolate fudge and surrounded by Easter eggs and fake grass, for an Easter performance at Coventry Gallery in Sydney. Versions of Paik’s famous video sculptures TV cello, TV Buddha and TV bed were constructed in Australia as part of the exhibition component of the project. In 1971, Paik had devised TV cello, enclosing three TV monitors in separate plexiglas boxes to create a cello-shaped instrument. TV Buddha – possibly Paik’s most famous video work – was originally produced to fill a gap in a show. In it, the Buddha watches his videotaped image on the screen opposite – past and present gaze upon each other in an encounter between Oriental deity and Western media. For TV bed, Paik made a bed from monitors covered with a sheet of plexiglas. Moorman could play while reclining upon the bed with the screens playing either videotaped footage or television transmissions. Read more about Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik. Watch video of Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik’s TV cello and TV bra on the Kaldor Public Arts Project website. Charlotte Moorman performs Sky kiss 1968, composition by Jim McWilliams, above the Sydney Opera House forecourt in 1976. Courtesy Kaldor Public Art Projects | WORLD EVENTSApple Computers founded by Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak Dolby Stereo systems introduced into cinemas Queen Elizabeth II sends an email message Release of US film Taxi driver, directed by Martin Scorsese ABC radio serial Blue Hills ends after 32 years Brett Whiteley wins the Archibald Prize with Self portrait in the studio Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Running Fence installed in California Biennale of Sydney, Recent international forms in art, artistic director Thomas G McCullough 5th Kaldor project Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik present Moorman + Paik in various venues in Adelaide and Sydney, including the Art Gallery of NSW | ||
