Kill Pop-Art!! Robot-Opera
  • ephemera
  • offset-printed
  • black-and-white
  • 21.6 x 27.9 cm
  • [2] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Kill Pop-Art!! Robot-Opera

Nam June Paik

Kill Pop-Art!! Robot-Opera

description

Two sided flyer / program published in conjunction with performance of Nam June Paik''s "Robot Opera" featuring Charlotte Moorman on cello and his Robot K-456. "The robot''s solo act was titled, Robot Opera (1964), but the title was thrown around loosely. Between 1964 and 1965, a specific performance with Moorman, a concert of works by multiple composers or just Paik, and several street theatre promenades all carried that name. What Robot Opera more clearly designates is the operatic and sci-fi inflected style that both artists brought to their collaboration when the robot worked as much as when it failed." -- from Sophie Landres, "The First Non-Human Action Artist Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik in Robot Opera," in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Vol. 40, No. 1 (January 2018), pp. 11-25.

references

No. 1306 in "Extra Art : A Survey of Artists' Ephemera 1960 - 1999" by Steven Leiber, Ralph Rugoff, Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Todd Alden, Ted Purves. San Francisco / Santa Monica, CA : California College of Arts and Crafts [CCAC] / Smart Art Press, 2001, pp. 174.
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