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Greetings all,
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>Please join us as Los Angeles Filmforum co-presents a TRIBUTE TO THE LIFE AND ART OF
>NAM JUNE PAIK AT LACMA. This will be a very special event as we honor and celebrate the
>renowned artist.
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>TRIBUTE TO THE LIFE AND ART OF NAM JUNE PAIK AT LACMA
>AN EVENING OF REMEMBRANCES, PERFORMANCES, PROJECTED VIDEO WORKS, AND
>RARELY SEEN CLIPS
>
>Thursday June 1, 2006, 7:30 pm
>Tickets are free - see information below.
>
>The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles Filmforum, and teh Korean
>Cultural Center, Los Angeles present a memorial tribute to the life and career of composer
>and video and performance artist Nam June Paik at the museum's Bing Theater on
>Thursday, June 1 at 7:30 pm. Video art pioneer Nam June Paik died of natural causes at his
>home in Miami, Florida, on January 29, 2006; he was seventy-three. Memorial services for
>Paik have been held worldwide and this tribute will recognize his contribution to the
>culture of Los Angeles. The early seventies brought video art to Southern California,
>notably at the Long Beach Museum of Art where David A. Ross organized an exhibition of
>Nam June Paik's work in 1974, and California Institute of the Arts School of Film and Video
>where Nam June Paik taught, and personally introduced the Paik-Abe video synthesizer in
>1970. Today, Paik's influence resonates in the acceptance of video art as a collectible art
>form, with his work in the collections of many museums in California, including LACMA.
>
>Michael Govan, LACMA's new CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director, and Byung Hyo Choi, the
>Korean Consul General, will begin the evening with an introduction to the program, which
>includes a variety of experts and devotees, such as speaker Mary Livingstone Beebe,
>Director of the Stuart Collection at the University of California, San Diego; David A. Ross,
>President of the Artist Pension Trust and former Director of the San Francisco Museum of
>Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the first curator to organize a
>museum exhibition of Paik's work in the United States; renowned video artist Bill Viola;
>and Kathy Rae Huffman, Director of Visual Arts at Cornerhouse, Manchester, England, who
>was Curator at the Long Beach Museum of Art, and director of its regional media art
>center. Ms. Huffman will be presenting rare archival footage of Picturephone, Paik's
>interactive satellite performance between Los Angeles and New York.
>
>Other highlights include the presentation of Paik's Zen for Film (1964–65) by independent
>producer and curator Julie Lazar, who organized the last large-scale composition/
>exhibition by John Cage, Rolywholyover A Circus, which included Zen for Film.
>Additionally, Los Angeles visual and sound artist Steve Roden will perform an early work,
>Primitive Music, and seminal dancer and choreographer Simone Forti will present a new
>performance based on her diary entry about Paik from her Handbook in Motion—An
>Account of an Ongoing Personal Discourse and its Manifestations in Dance (1974, the
>Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design). Archival video and rare footage,
>courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, will also be screened. Technical support is
>provided by The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS),
>a group that serves as a catalyst for the creation, presentation, and recognition of
>experimental art and sound practices in the Greater Los Angeles area.
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>A Tribute to Nam June Paik is organized by Carole Ann Klonarides and presented by the
>Film and Contemporary Art departments of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in
>association with Los Angeles Filmforum, and the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles.
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>Admission is free but tickets are required and may be picked up at the box office starting
>at noon on the day of the event. Tickets must be presented at the door of the Bing Theater
>by 7:20 pm, after which time entrance to the theater is on a first come, first serve basis.
>
>About LACMA: In April 2006, Michael Govan became CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director of
>the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). He is the seventh person to hold the
>position of Director in the museum's 41-year history. Established as an independent
>institution in 1965, LACMA has assembled a permanent collection that includes
>approximately 100,000 works of art spanning the history of art from ancient times to the
>present, making it the premier encyclopedic visual arts museum in the western United
>States. Located in the heart of one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world, the
>museum uses its collection and resources to provide a variety of educational and cultural
>experiences for the people who live in, work in, and visit Los Angeles. LACMA offers an
>outstanding schedule of special exhibitions, as well as lectures, classes, family activities,
>film programs and world-class musical events.
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>About the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles: The Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles
>works under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to promote mutual cultural
>understanding between the United States and Korea. For more information about the
>Cultural Center and its programs, please visit http://www.kccla.org .
>
>LACMA is located at 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles CA, 90036. For more
>information about LACMA and its programming, log on to http://www.lacma.org.
>
>Museum Hours: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, noon–8 pm; Friday, noon–9 pm;
>Saturday and Sunday, 11 am–8 pm; closed Wednesday, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Call
>323 857-6000, or http://www.lacma.org for more information.
>
>General LACMA Admission: Adults $9; students 18+ with ID and senior citizens 62+ $5.
>Admission (except to specially ticketed exhibitions) is free every evening after 5 pm, the
>second Tuesday of every month, and for children 17 and under.
>
>Please note: LACMA is free every evening after 5 pm.
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