Swiss Clock
Date/ 1988
Artist(Credit Line)/ Nam June Paik
Classification/ Installation
N005_Swiss Clock
N005_Swiss Clock
N005_Swiss Clock
- I Wrote it in Tokyo in 1954
- Beuys Vox
- Magnet TV
- Nixon TV
- TV Crown
- Swiss Clock
- Participation TV
- TV Garden
- TV Fish (Video Fish)
- TV Buddha
- TV Clock
- Moon is the Oldest TV
- Candle TV
- Real Fish/Live Fish
- Three Elements :Square
- Three Elements : Triangle
- Three Elements : Circle
- Elephant Cart
- Think Loud
- Piano & Letters
- Rabbit inhabits the moon
- Ideas You Believe are Absurd Ultimately Lead to Success
- Eclipse
- No.1 Video Chandelier
- Transmission Tower
Dimensions / Variable
Medium / Closed-circuit camera, clock, 3 TV monitors, tripod, 1-channel video, color, silent
A CCTV camera captures the movement of a striking clock’s pendulum, which is screened on three televisions in real time. On the monitors that are placed in three different directions, the motion of the same pendulum is shown from three different angles. This work manifests the circular relationship between image and reality in the operation of closed-circuit TV. By recording the clock’s movement in this way, it also visu¬ally embodies the abstractness of flows of time. It may be said that Swiss Clock is one of the expressions of Nam June Paik’s interest in ‘non-linear time’.
Medium / Closed-circuit camera, clock, 3 TV monitors, tripod, 1-channel video, color, silent
A CCTV camera captures the movement of a striking clock’s pendulum, which is screened on three televisions in real time. On the monitors that are placed in three different directions, the motion of the same pendulum is shown from three different angles. This work manifests the circular relationship between image and reality in the operation of closed-circuit TV. By recording the clock’s movement in this way, it also visu¬ally embodies the abstractness of flows of time. It may be said that Swiss Clock is one of the expressions of Nam June Paik’s interest in ‘non-linear time’.
