Jud Yalkut

Only the film Kusama's Self-Obliteration can today still give an idea of the energy and radicality with which Yayoi Kusama provoked the New York art world of the late 1960s with her performances. The film documents the legendary 'nude happenings' of these years, and has been shown at numerous international film festivals and awarded several prizes. (UBI Web)

Archival footage of news conferences by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson and New York Mayor John Lindsay is subject to image distortion and video alteration, in order to emphasize media manipulation and the fragile power of news outlets.

Part of a collection of restored early works by Nam June Paik, the haunting Beatles Electronique reveals Paik’s engagement with manipulation of pop icons and electronic images. Snippets of footage from A Hard Day’s Night are countered with Paik’s early electronic processing. (Letterboxd)

Part of a restored collection of rare early works by Nam June Paik, Waiting for Commercials is a hilarious compendium of Japanese TV commercials. This early example of Paik’s use of appropriated television imagery as pop cultural artifact was originally created for a performance piece of the same name, which featured Charlotte Moorman and her cello.

Marked by a playful, irreverent sense of improvisation and experimentation, these experiments with image manipulation and synthesis form a link between Paik’s performance and sculptural works of the 1950s and early 1960s and the celebrated video works and installations of his later years. (Letterboxd)

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.