Something Pacific: detail: ruined television tube with grass growing through it

Paik's Something Pacific for the Stuart Collection was his first permanent outdoor installation. This work relates specifically to its site, which includes the lobby of the university's Media Center as well as the lawns surrounding the building. Outdoors, the work features several ruined televisions embedded in the landscape; some are paired with Buddhas, and one, a tiny Sony Watchman, is topped by a miniature reproduction of Rodin's Thinker. In striking contrast to this video graveyard, the lobby of the Media Center houses one of Paik's lively interactive banks of TV monitors. By means of a control panel, viewers are able to manipulate sequences of Paik's own tapes and broadcast MTV.

• 1986

• Stuart Collection (San Diego, Calif.)

• Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)

• Paik, Nam June (South Korean sculptor, video artist, and performance artist, 1932-2006)

• Beebe, Mary Livingstone (American, born 1940)

Media Center: University of California, San Diego; La Jolla, California, United States

junked television set

• Pacific Ocean

• Bronzes (objects)
• Buddhas
• Conceptual
• Environmental art
• Landscape architecture
• Lawns (landscaped grass)
• Outdoor sculpture
• Public art
• Public sculpture
• Sculpture gardens
• Site-specific works
• Television receivers

• University of California, San Diego--History

• Buddhism
• Contemporary
• Deterioration
• Graveyards
• Humor
• Korean
• Landscapes (environments)
• Mass media
• Meditation
• Nature
• Product obsolescence
• Religions (concept)
• Rubbish
• Ruins
• Space (composition concept)
• Technology

Point: 32.881197, -117.239983

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art

Science, Technology and Industry

Sculpture and Installations

• Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)

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2022-10-27