[spectre] (fwd) Nam June Paik Art Center inaugural festival NOW JUMP

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Nam June Paik Art Center

NOW JUMP
October 8, 2008 - February 5, 2009


Nam June Paik Art Center
85 Sanggal-dong, Giheung-gu,
Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do
446-905
Republic of Korea

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NOW JUMP, the festival's title, originates in an 
Aesop punchline: "Hic Rhodus, Hic saltus!" NOW 
JUMP is an appeal to exceed past achievements: 
NOW is always the time to act. An invitation or 
call to action, this festival also represents the 
ambition of the Nam June Paik Art Center to leap 
into the future through the NJP Festival.

NOW JUMP is organized according to the concept of 
'Stations,' simultaneously encompassing a state 
of stillness and of motion or anticipation of 
motion. In our everyday experience these can be 
places where trains or buses regularly stop; 
broadcasting stations; power stations; research 
institutes; studios; local headquarters; 
habitats; social status or postures. For NOW JUMP 
five stations exist as concurrent initiatives: 
exhibitions, performances, and platforms to 
establish discourse.

Station_1 is a point of departure gathering Nam 
June Paik archival material and works, and 
combining it with that of his friends, colleagues 
and references. Recontextualizing the artist's 
work within the history of his own practice, that 
of Fluxus and other trends of the 1960s, it is an 
attempt to highlight the complexities of 
creativity and its social and political 
significance. Ultimately the goal is to 
renegotiate the influence of Nam June Paik within 
the practice of new generations of artists.

Station_2 is a state of anticipation - 
reintroducing the notion of potentiality into the 
actualized exhibition space and implanting an 
openness that the exhibition loses when it comes 
into being. Different forms of performance are 
given a platform from which they can be regarded 
and from which they can also look at each other. 
By producing their own space, time and durational 
place these works expose the circuits into which 
they are inserted and begin to expand into the 
realm of lived experience.

Station_3 is a journey that has already begun. 
Unlike Stations 1 and 2 which are mainly 
presented in the Art Center building, Station 3 
intersperses artworks into a new private gallery 
and an existing high school gymnasium. The 
specific characteristics of these buildings 
create shifts in mood and tone. Whereas before 
the works were in dialogue with the past and the 
contemporary present, here the dialogue ranges 
from domestic and introspective to imposing and 
controlled, reminiscent of being in urban space. 
In this context, the practices presented dwell on 
creativity as an ability to open lines of flight 
from reductive definitions and restrictions.

Station_4 and Station_5 are spaces of transit 
offering temporary points of arrival, moments for 
reflection, and a place from which to embark on 
new departures. Respectively, they correspond to 
workshops, seminars and publications and to the 
establishment of the NJP Art Center prize.

Artists List
Station_1: Allan Kaprow, Anzaï, Bas Jan Ader, 
Byungki Whang, Charlotte Moorman, Eunjoo Lee, 
George Brecht, George Maciunas, Hans G. Helms, 
Hermann Nitsch, Joe Jones, John Cage, Joseph 
Beuys, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Klaus Barisch, 
Kulim Kim, Kunyong Lee, Larry Miller, Manfred 
Leve, Manfred Montwé, Mary Bauermeister, Merce 
Cunningham, Nam June Paik, Naoki Ishikawa, 
Neungkyoung Sung, Otto Muehl, Peter Fischer, 
Peter Moore, Peter Weibel, Robert Filliou, Shiomi 
Meiko, Shuya Abe, Sukhi Kang, Sylvano Bussotti, 
Ulrich Bassenge, Wang Xingwei, William Gedney, 
Xiao Zhuang, Yiso Bahc, Yuji Takahashi

Station_2: Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet, Antonia 
Baehr, Boris Charmatz, Byungjun Kwon, Claudia 
Triozzi, Donghee Koo, Dora Garcia, Forced 
Entertainment, Guido van der Werve, Guillaume 
Désanges, Hwayeon Nam & Younggyu Jang, Hyoungmin 
Kim, Kris Verdonck, La Ribot, Peter Welz, Romeo 
Castellucci, Ryoji Ikeda, Rimini Protokoll, 
Toshiki Okada, Vincent Dupont, William Forsythe

Station_3: A kills B, André Gonçalves, Aurélien 
Froment, Bik Van der Pol , Bomin Kim, Changsub 
Choi, Choongsup Lim, Dujin Kim, Herwig Weiser, 
Hontoban - Anthony Bannwart, Jackson Hong, Jan 
Fabre, Joongki Geum, Jueun Lee, Kiyoshi Kuroda, 
Kyungwon Moon, Manon de Boer, Marjolijn Dijkman, 
MeeNa Park, Minsuk Cho, Namaiki, Paolo Soleri, 
Paul Granjon, Rene Daalder, Rostarr, Sasa [44], 
Sergio Prego, Seungmo Seo, Stephan Reusse, 
Stephen Smith/Neasden Control Centre, Susie Lim, 
Sulki & Min, Wolsik Kim, Yangachi, Zilvinas 
Kempinas

Station_4: A special project by castillo/corrales

NOW JUMP from October 8, 2008 to February 5, 2009

The Nam June Paik Art Center, supported by 
Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation and Gyeonggi 
province.
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To find out more contact:
Nam June Paik Art Center
85 Sanggal-dong, Giheung-gu,
Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do
446-905
Republic of Korea
T: + 82 (0) 31 201 8543
F: + 82 (0) 31 201 8515
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