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Global Groove
Nam June Paik and John Godfrey, 1973, 28'30"

The film Global Groove begins with the sentence “This is a glimpse of a new world where you will be able to switch on every TV channel of the world and where TV guides will be as thick as the Manhattan telephone book”, spoken from nowhere. Then the dancers are step dancing to American rock music, followed by Japanese and Korean dancers, by a singing and drumming Navajo Indian and a fist fight of Black Africans, interspersed by an American advertising spot for Pepsi. The quiet rhythms of the sequences with Allen Ginsberg and John Cage who tells anecdotes interrupt the fast pace. In excerpts performances by Paik himself are shown.

The exhibition tanzmedial presented the orginal version of Global Groove from the year 1973.Nam June Paik has continued to develop the work. Global Groove 2004 was shown at the exhibition hall 'Deutsches Guggenheim' in Berlin.

Nam-June Paik
Born 1932 in Seoul/Korea
Lives and works in New York
Education: Study of History, Philosophy and Music in Tokyo, Japan
Music History and Composition at the University of Munich and of Freiburg

During his entire career, Nam June Paik has been a central figure in Avant-garde Art. His innovative works in video-, performance- and installation art, satellite transmission, painting and composition have had a basic influence on contemporary art. In his projects he focuses on the integration of art and technology. Numerous monumental video installations are shown in museums and exhibitions all over the world.

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