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February 13, 2006

Nam June Paik funeral

The packed memorial service held at the Frank Campbell Funeral Chapel on E 81 Street in NYC on February 3 ended with large numbers of scissors being passed out, & with Nam June lying in state many men then had their ties snipped & the resulting ends laid on Nam Junes chest. Besides a similarity to other religious rituals, this was apparently a re-enactment of a long ago event when Nam June once jumped off a stage & clipped the tie of John Cage in the audience, the daring of which so impressed George Macunis that he inducted Nam into the Fluxist group.

At any rate it certainly gave a final upbeat tone to the service & made a fine addition to my video archive. There were by the way, likely never so many video camera's ever before in action for any art world related function, which all seemed particularly appropriate, as Nam June had so much to do with popularizing & inspiring the global art video movement.

Bill Rabinovitch
rabinart@aol.com

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Posted by cat at 03:17 PM