Nam June Paik Artcenter is pleased to present 'Variations of the Moon.' It is where contemporary people can feel new temporality by arts and resonate with it. With a motif, Nam June Paik's one of representing work 'The Moon is the oldest TV,' the exhibition raises our hidden emotions through the Moon's metaphor for circular and Oriental temporality, and surreal and prototypical human life, and suggests a time of meditation and thought through a moment of new arts experience. 

As Nam June Paik predicted 'stationary nomad,' playing a variation on space and time by a finger, contemporary people live with crossing time and space in terms of development of technology. Contemporary artists express such way of life in various artworks, and they are good at dissolution and compression of zeitlichkeit of life. Video art, called 'Imitating time itself.' by Nam June Paik at an early age, has accumulated layers of 'time' as multifactorial forms with traditional mediums as well as media, installation, sound and performance. 6 artists and Nam Jun Paik's works will provide various zeitlichkeit of contemporary art and an opportunity to rethink of a 'moment' of life as 'poetical' one.  

Artists: David Claerbout, Ryota Kuwakubo, Kyuchul Ahn, sekwon Ahn, Sohee Cho, Hiraki Sawa

*image (left)
Hiraki Sawa
Hako, 2007
6 channel video installation, 12'00"
courtesy of the artist