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Event as Image: Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art
John Cage included himself in the art scene when he credited the painter Robert Rauschenberg with the inspiration for his own silent pieces. He insisted on the analogy with Paik's videoart. Commenting on Paik's Zen for Film in 1968. he compared "the nature of silence" with Rauschenberg's painting and his own work. In some of his compositions, the audience would find "no sounds of my own making" but only the presence of real space. Likewise, Rauschenberg, he writes, "made paintings which have no images on them - they are simply white canvases" much as Paik made " an hour-long film which has no images on it." Paik himself called this strategy "the Zen gaze" - an escape from representation or: "Enjoy boredom." (Nam June Paik, Zen TV 1973)
A lecture by Øystein Hauge as part of the series Dematerialized < > Rematerialized for MA Fine Art
Øystein Hauge
tirsdag 21. feb. kl. 10:00 – 11:30
Kunstakademiet lecture room
Arr: MA KunstSpråk: English