Nam June Paik and Doris Salcedo
Jacques Paye
Nam June Paik
- Korean-American
- Media and video art
- Born July 20, 1932
Electronic Superhighway
Electronic Superhighway
Electronic Superhighway
Cultural Context: 1995, currently at Smithsonian
Content: 51-channel video installation with neon
Formal Aspects: 40-feet long, 15 feet high. Countless scenes of American life.
Function: Artistic
Electronic Superhighway
Nam June Paik, V-yramid (detail), 1982, video installation, color, sound, with forty television sets
Nam June Paik, TV Garden, 1974 (2000), video installation with color television sets and live plants (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)
Doris Salcedo
- Born in 1958, from Bogota, Colombia
- Work focuses on commonplace items and pain, trauma, and loss.
Shibboleth
Shibboleth
Shibboleth
Shibboleth
Cultural Context: 2007-2008 at the Tate Modern.
Content: Long winding crack in ground
Formal Aspects: Wire mesh embedded in sides, perspective change
Function: show experience of immigrants in Europe
Examples of Salcedo's work
Doris Salcedo, Noviembre 6 y 7, 2002, Supreme Court, Bogotá
Doris Salcedo. “Atrabiliarios [Defiant],” 1992-93. Drywall, shoes, cow bladder, and surgical thread.
Doris Salcedo
- Often uses everyday objects
- Politically charged works dealing with loss, exclusion, and ethnic conflict
"Dysfunctional furniture"
Nam June Paik
- Also used everyday objects (TV)
- Technology allows us to communicate across boundaries, and transforms our world
"TV Buddha"
Sources:
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https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/ap-art-history/global-contemporary/a/doris-salcedo-shibboleth"
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https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/global-culture/conceptual-performance/a/paik-electronic-superhighway
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http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/unilever-series-doris-salcedo-shibboleth
- http://www.paikstudios.com/
- http://americanart.si.edu/education/rs/artwork/#artwork
- http://www3.mcachicago.org/2015/salcedo/works/shibboleth/
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