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A post-Fluxus action after Nam June Paik

Pork belly for everyone? In this shamanistic post-Fluxus performance, the trio Brauer / Kim / Waki takes up Nam June Paik's 1963 piece "Piano for All Senses" and poses the question of how to prepare pianos so that, in the midst of a perspectiveless present, the pianistic dimension can be proclaimed.


Suspense! How many infiltration tunnels in this system have yet to be discovered? Count the waves of the Spree River. At what foreskin size does the Young Penis Symphony begin? Count the waves of the Spree River. Why are you, as a shaman, not allowed to look at the test pattern for more than 3 seconds? Anyone who has demonstrably been injected with Korean Botox in the last 24 hours or is exactly 100 days old receives free admission. Count the feet by the toes. Suspense!


Nam June Paik (1932-2006), the pioneer of video art, was initially a composer and was sent to Germany by his parents to avoid being branded a communist in North Korea. His early surviving musical scores are largely unknown and form the basis of this post-Fluxus performance.

Dongkyu Leo Kim discovers the unfamiliar piano music of Nam June Paik's teacher, Sun-nam Kim, and fuses K-pop, Schoenberg, Stockhausen, and traditional Korean music in his improvisations. Brauer explores whether Nam June Paik's principle of spectral piano sound splitting is still applicable, and Yoshiko Waki inhabits a grand piano to channel Shigeko Kubota. Be prepared and repeat IT: HACK!

This call is the beginning of a different kind of study. Is it still worthwhile to distinguish between spheres, or should the difference between the analog world of fingers and the virtual world of spheres be abandoned? Paik Nam June whispers to you: “I make technology ridiculous!”

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Participating artists
Maximilian Brauer (Mit)
Dongkyu Leo Kim (Mit)
Yoshiko Waki (Mit)
Daniela Zorrozua (Bühne & Kostüm)
Christian Filips (Künstlerische Unterstützung)
Sabine Zielke (Künstlerische Unterstützung)
Constanze Schüddekopf (Künstlerische Produktionsleitung)
Dates
November 2025
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