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In Dec 2021 the Gallery opened Nam June Paik: The Future is Now, the first major retrospective in Southeast Asia of this visionary artist.
TV Garden is Paik’s imagined future landscape where technology is an integral part of the natural world. He places television sets amongst live plants, creating an environment in which the seemingly distinct realms of electronics and nature coexist.
The monitors in this version of TV Garden display Paik’s music video work Global Groove, a colourful and dense mix of avant-garde, pop, and commercial imagery that bring together many of the themes central to him. It addressed global telecommunications and predicted a shift in the way different cultures, disciplines and art forms could connect and combine in mass media.
On display at B1 Basement Concourse
Nam June Paik. TV Garden. 1974–77, reconstructed 2002. Live plants and cathode-ray tube televisions. Video, colour, sound. Collection of Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Dusseldorf.
Nam June Paik, installation view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 8–Oct 3 2021; photo: Adam Jacobs Photography.
