Can We Talk Post-Preservation? A letter to Nam June Paik - Conference Preprint

Hölling, Hanna Barbara (2022). Can We Talk Post-Preservation? A letter to Nam June Paik - Conference Preprint In: My Paik Nam June (pp. 52-65). Seoul, South Korea: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

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This is a letter from the past to Nam June Paik in the future. This might sound paradoxical but I had been writing this script a few weeks ahead of its presentation at The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Gwacheon, Seoul in November 2022. We were celebrating the 90th anniversary of Paik's birth in his absence. “The future is now.” This paper starts forging a creative and interpretive engagement with the past liberated from the (paradoxical) constrains of the authentic material. It means that, on the one hand, we should agree that dysfunctional media carry a timeless aesthetic that might liberate your works from the threat of obsolescence. On the other, it might mean to continue your works by activating them in the present moment, e.g. by deploying artistic gestures and creative re-enactments which would leave behind the fetish of the object and the historical ballast of the outworn. After all,“the eternity cult is the longest disease of mankind,” claimed Paik.

Item Type:	Book Section (Further Contribution)
Division/Institute:	Bern Academy of the Arts Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Materiality in Art and Culture Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Materiality in Art and Culture > Contemporary Art and Media
Name:	Hölling, Hanna Barbara0000-0002-3063-4405
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
Publisher:	National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Funders:	[7] Swiss National Science Foundation
Projects:	[199] Activating Fluxus Official URL
Language:	English
Submitter:	Hanna Barbara Hölling
Date Deposited:	13 Dec 2022 15:31
Last Modified:	13 Dec 2022 15:31
Related URLs:	Organisation Publication
ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.18153
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/18153