Sinfonie Nr. 6 – in box (Violinparts and score), funkhaus köln, Neuss
Date/ 1980
Artist(Credit Line)/ Nam June Paik
Classification/ Object
- Paik-Abe Video Synthesizer
- Homecoming
- 12 Piano Compositions for Nam June Paik by George Maciunas performer’s copy of score with annotations and instructions for performance at Nam June Paik Art Center in 2010 prepared and performed by Ben Patterson
- Message to Nam June Paik
- Chronicle of A Beautiful Dancer
- In Memoriam Geroge Maciunas
- Flux Reliquary
- Deck, A Fluxgame
- Closed on Monday, A Fluxgame
- Bead Puzzle
- Flux Rain Machine
- Events
- Living Fluxsculpture
- Instruction No.2
- Events
- Name kit
- Sinfonie Nr. 6 - in box (Violinparts and score), funkhaus köln, Neuss
- 2 1/2 TV
- Chair Black and White
- Colored Chair
- Hommage a John Cage
- 6 drawings on beertabs
- Fan
- MS-Fluxussus (symphonie Nr. 7)
- Cooking Pot (with Korean Recipe)
- First portable TV
- Untitled
Dimensions / 52x72x7.5cm
Medium / Violin fragments, 3 score papers
Within a frame, there are three scores and fragments of a broken violin as remnants of playing Nam June Paik’s Symphony No.6. This is a relay performance where one performer plays a single note and then passes only the violin’s bow to the next performer, who plays another note, passes the bow again to the next, and so forth. Even before this work, Paik composed a series of Fluxus scores called Symphony, The first one is Young Penis Symphony written in 1962 and published in Décollage No.2 the same year. Symphony for Twenty Rooms written the year before was published in Fluxus Anthology in 1963, thus No.2. Paik explained about his Symphonies No.1 –No.5 in his 1973 essay My Symphonies.
Medium / Violin fragments, 3 score papers
Within a frame, there are three scores and fragments of a broken violin as remnants of playing Nam June Paik’s Symphony No.6. This is a relay performance where one performer plays a single note and then passes only the violin’s bow to the next performer, who plays another note, passes the bow again to the next, and so forth. Even before this work, Paik composed a series of Fluxus scores called Symphony, The first one is Young Penis Symphony written in 1962 and published in Décollage No.2 the same year. Symphony for Twenty Rooms written the year before was published in Fluxus Anthology in 1963, thus No.2. Paik explained about his Symphonies No.1 –No.5 in his 1973 essay My Symphonies.
