Nam June Paik 10th Anniversary Commemorative Exhibition Of The Art Center
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Nam June Paik 10th Anniversary Commemorative Exhibition Of The Art Center. These thoughts of Nam June Paik are also connected to the contemplation of the democratic creation and use of art pursued by the art community ‘Fluxus,’ to which he belonged. To mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Nam June Paik Art Center, the commemorative exhibition 『#Art #Commons #NamJunePaik』 was held from October 11, 2018, to February 3, 2019. Based on the motto “Art Commons, Nam June Paik,” this exhibition experimented with the potential of the art museum as a ‘commons’ through the works of artists who contemplate new ontologies and modes of communication in art. The exhibition 『#Art #Commons #NamJunePaik』 aligns with Nam June Paik’s declaration that “art is not private property.” In his essay *Global Groove and the Video Common Market* (1970), Paik proposed viewing video as a kind of ‘commons’ where information and distribution are activated through free communication, much like the prototype of the European Common Market. These thoughts of Nam June Paik are also connected to the contemplation of the democratic creation and use of art pursued by the art community ‘Fluxus,’ to which he belonged. Through Nam June Paik’s works such as *Décollage: Fluxus Island in the Sea*, *Paik-Abbe Video Synthesizer*, *Elephant Cart*, and *Good Morning Mr. Orwell*, the exhibition introduces the audience to the history of media as a common good, an exploration of Fluxus and art communities, and Paik’s pioneering idea of leaving the intellectual property of the synthesizer as a collective asset. Furthermore, through the works of Joseph Beuys—who declared "everyone is an artist," viewed life itself as art, and explored the potential for political revolution inherent in art—the exhibition showcases the thoughts of pioneers who presented a new ontology of art within capitalized art. The question posed by this exhibition regarding the role contemporary art will play in society is also connected to the questions raised by contemporary art museums. Standing on the cusp of a new decade, the Nam June Paik Art Center’s exhibition, *#Art #Commons #NamJunePaik*, was conceived with the expectation that the ceaseless questioning and exploration of the role of art will serve as a process of building a future art museum where “the voices of the multitude and opposing voices resonate.” The exhibition was planned with the hope that the experiment on the commons, which began with Nam June Paik—who sought the potential of art in video art when it was suffering from being privatized and commodified—will lead to the restoration of social trust in art.
