26'1.1499" For A String Player

Jud Yalkut 

1973, 42 min, color, sound

This tape is Jud Yalkut's video realization of Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik's concert performance of John Cage's composition 26'1.1499" For String Player. In this extraordinary performance, which is manipulated and synthesized by Yalkut, Paik and Moorman play Cage's score on a collection of "instruments" that include a pistol, a dish of mushrooms, balloons, a practice aerial bomb, and a telephone call to President Nixon.

Rare Performance Documents 1961-1994 Volume 1: Paik-Moorman Collaborations

Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik

1965-73, compiled 2000, 25:08 min, b&w and color, sound

Newly restored, rare performance material from Nam June Paik's personal archives is featured in this remarkable volume. These documents trace the evolution of Paik's eclectic performance work over three decades. Volume 1 includes documentation of his emblematic collaborative pieces with Charlotte Moorman, including TV Bed, TV Cello, and TV Bra. These works are performed at venues that include the Howard Wise Gallery, the Everson Museum (where David Ross joins Moorman on the TV Bed), and the WGBH television studio.

TV Cello Premiere

Nam June Paik, Jud Yalkut

1971, 7:25 min, color, silent, 16 mm film on video

TV Cello Premiere is a silent film documentation of Charlotte Moorman in her first performance on Paik's eponymous TV Cello at the Bonino Gallery in New York in 1971.