Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik "The Originale"

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Charlotte Moorman talks about how she met her long time artistic partner Nam June Paik. The details of the establishment and presentation of the 1964 premier performance of Stockhausen's "Originale" in New Yok is described in very funny detail. She tells about George Maciunas (Fluxus) picketing the performance. Filmed in 1980 under a grant from the National Endowment for the arts. It is an excerpt from the work Charlotte Morman and the New York Avant Garde. This piece by Fred Stern is dedicated to the Memory of Charlotte and Nam June.

Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: December 14, 2006 at 3:41 pm
Author: FredStern

Length: 0:09:51
Rating: 4.63
Views: 11,583

Tags: Art Charlotte Morman Nam June Paik Fred Stern Avant Garde performance Stockhausen Originale video Fluxus Maciunas

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freedplanet (Monday 21st of April 2008 07:43:09 PM)
Dear Fred, thank you for sharing this excellent quality video both in picture and in comment. Charlotte seems such a funny character. She was at / initiated some key art performances with such amazing people. Lively, the world of and around her continuously stretched to new limits. While she innocently tells that it happened almost without her. Masterfully enjoyable. A great artist to remember.
VirgoAlien (Thursday 14th of February 2008 08:31:43 PM)
Moorman would (would have) understood the concept of plastering the walls of holy places with thousands of handprints (the ink used must be Speedball black water soluble) of people from all walks and stations of life. A chirographic blueprint of souls in manifestation. Imagine Charlotte materializing before a stupefied crowd, wearing a WWII gas mask, poised to play disparate notes on a cello. So futuristic a being for the art scene of the 20th centur and straight out of Arkansas too!
pylgrym (Sunday 5th of August 2007 07:31:14 PM)
Nam June Paik would be posting - big time. He would coordinate a thousand posters on a thousand screens in Grand Central Station and each part would be part of his performance... HIS performance. It could be a permanent mural there!
instantpud (Wednesday 14th of February 2007 12:38:35 PM)
thanks for posting this. you're putting youtube to good use. I wonder what Nam June Paik would have thought of youtube.
HEXYLADY (Tuesday 13th of February 2007 11:06:13 AM)
it's just an interview.