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01. Aki Onda - Seoul (2010)
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02. Aki Onda - Köln (2012)
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03. Aki Onda - Lewisburg (2014)
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04. Aki Onda - Wrocław (2013)
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ARTIST
ONDA, AKI
TITLE
Nam June's Spirit Was Speaking To Me
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
RECITAL
CATALOG #
R 073LP
R 073LP
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
6/5/2020
2022 repress. Recital label head
Sean McCann
on the record (2020): "A spellbinding tribute from one multi-faceted artist to another. New York-based artist
Aki Onda
(b. 1967) conjured a transduction to the Korean multi-media pioneer
Nam June Paik
(1932-2006). Aki himself describes the project: '
Nam June's Spirit Was Speaking To Me
occurred purely by chance. In 2010, I was spending four days at Nam June Paik Art Center in South Korea for a series of performances and had plenty of free time to wander . . . I have always felt a close kinship with him as an artist, and so it was a great opportunity to immerse myself in his works and ephemera. It was that night I made the first contact, via a hand-held radio in a hotel room in Seoul . . . Scanning through the stations, I stumbled upon what sounded like a submerged voice and I began to record it in fascination. I concluded this was Paik's spirit reaching out to me. The project continued to grow organically as I kept channeling Paik's spirit over long distance and receiving cryptic broadcasts/messages. The series of séances, conducted in different cities across the globe, began in Seoul in 2010, and continued in Köln, Germany in 2012, Wrocław, Poland in 2013, and Lewisburg, USA in 2014. The original recordings were captured by the same radio which has a tape recorder, with almost no editing, save for some minimal slicing and mastering. Paik is known for his association with shamanism, a practice that constantly surfaces in his works all through his career. In an interview, he stated 'In Korea, diverse forms of shamanism are strongly remained. Even though I have created my work unconsciously, the most inspiring thing in my work came from Korean female shaman Mudang.' . . . These recordings also became a way for me to explore the mythic form of radio -- a medium which is full of mysteries. The transmissions captured may be 'secret broadcasts' on anonymous radio stations. There are in fact hundreds of those stations around the world, although the numbers dwindle as clandestine messages can now be sent via encrypted digital channels...'
Nam June's Spirit
is a beautifully formed homage, I cannot think of any other like it. An intimate, flickering language discovered through the air." Includes 20-page art booklet including rare photographs of Nam June Paik from the set of
Michael Snow
's film
Rameau's Nephew
(1974), two essays on radio-wave phenomenon (by Onda and
Marcus Gammel
), and a remembrance of Paik by
Yuji Agematsu
.
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