TV Garden
1974 (2000 version)
Video and audio installation with monitors and live plants, Dimensions variable. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Purchased with funds contributed by the International Director's Council and Executive Committee Members: Ann Ames, Edythe Broad, Henry Buhl, Elaine Terner Cooper, Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Harry David, Gail May Engelberg, Ronnie Heyman, Dakis Joannou, Cindy Johnson, Barbara Lane, Linda Macklowe, Peter Norton, Willem Peppler, Denise Rich, Simonetta Seragnoli, David Teiger, Ginny Williams, and Elliot K. Wolk; and through prior gift of The Bohen Foundation 2001.6. Photo: Ellen Labenski
"No artist has had a greater influence in revealing the artistic potential lurking behind television's flickering facade than Nam June Paik. Commonly hailed as the father of video art, he has reshaped perceptions of the electronic image through a prodigious output of manipulated TV sets, live performances, global television broadcasts, single-channel videos, and video installations. To enter Paik's TV Garden (1974) is to experience an uncanny fusion of the natural and the technological. Hidden amid an undergrowth of live plants are video monitors of various sizes, all playing the artist's 1974 video collaboration with John J. Godfrey, Global Groove, which montages performers from around the world into a gyrating visual mix. The videotape's sound track serves as musical and spoken counterpoint to the monitors' flicker of light. TV Garden set a new standard for immersive, site-specific video installations, and its influence is still being felt three decades later in ambient, room-sized installations by such artists as Gary Hill and Bill Viola."
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