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Winning career has been marked by daring experiment and consummate execution at Lincoln Center in 1965. He was the first to combine dance with video foreshadowing a new art form that has become known as video dance. He continues to explore this happy union in this recent work choreographed especially for the TV screen and supervised in every detail by Mr Cunningham. Purists among Myra's may prefer to turn the sound down and enjoy 15 minutes of uninterrupted and silence. What do you think.
If you're as efficient as a chef at that think think think think
like a life. We're
going to see this coming. I'm just saying is that don't you think you should go a little slower. You'll get this warnings of a time finding on the outskirts of Seattle they were stopped by a policeman. Yes. To see a mysterious license she rummaged around in her bag and said I just wanted to see the registration. She looked through it successfully. What are we going to do with you. This is coming. It started the year before she killed. She said I just don't have any more time to waste time with
you are. When we're going to know the room occupying and
I'm going to kill time with the book. Believe me that the other way around. I'd like to say one thing that I've been watching a lot of in our studios because we have some as
yet. This is other stuff
I've listened to the record highs. Where are you. With meeting
with your mom with you you know at the end of the time accountability of the two I'm not sure we can be in San Francisco I'm well and maybe in L.A. and then I could go anywhere. Oh that would be mindless. Oh well I'll tell you what I'll do I'll I'll let you know when when we are. So in case you happen to be there we could mean OK. Oh that would be wonderful. Why don't we try to have dinner one night with John and I'll be in touch then I'm going to be a starting point. I'll either be. Are you at work. Put me on high. All right. OK OK. Yes. Hope everything is well out there. Thank you. OK bye bye bye bye. You
see you. The Eto'o eat the Eat Eat that's what makes the difference for me.
It doesn't help in that conflict because you cannot write out how you feel. Do you think. What do you think back. That's right. I really know what you think it was. I think that you think I think it's right. I mean I don't even really what do you think. I don't even know what you think really really right. Do you think there's something wrong. Right. Really. Sometimes the response to retry their roster
status was they came to Kansas town sunset drive as fast as possible. No cars stuff was the Pongo was the week that I was crossing the system starting to see something out he asked the waitress because they were there sometimes you see what I can rationally Shashank out after ration to get a handout afterward Chatterton check out the backyard bears yet I know how busy shat Shasha as he shat shat Shashi at shat Jagdish at the notion this is yet a chance he shall get that
shot. Jack Jack Jack Jack. Yes he shot that shot Jack Jack Jack Jack Jack shall I visit Shakir chata chata chata. There's a shot there's a shot of it as a shot. There's a shot at predicting a busy shot pretty good thank you. Are you in anything in any field. Can
a fleet of taxis on Park Avenue be as beautiful as a dance of Merce Cunningham. Is this an icon of today television obscures art in life and life in art. A theme favored by the late Marcel Duchamp who believed a toilet bowl could be a work of art. Can we reverse time and bring back myself time. Can we reverse time and bring back. I
am a big hearted inventor of the youth of x and y to measure for the motion but the measure is that of motion. We replace x and y with M and M and Marcel Duchamp the French artist who is trying to reincarnate my filters on through video. Then why not combine them. Yes they should at least. Yes yes in the museums everything.
We hope so. So what is going to be when you call I don't get it when you call I don't when you call I don't get bored. Mine have never had a new and different days booked. Yes never no never. Hi how's the pool.
Mr
Cunningham visits the new distillery gallery see it coming him portfolio graphics like distinguished artist friends design the course for you know how you do it just so you know this is the third time I'm going to see the feel of it as of yet. How are you. Oh boy I remember that for the rest of
my soul. Coming up the steps to the Stude extraordinary he and Tessie did what was in those with a rosy view. Thank you. 3 2 3 4 2 3 4 3 3 3 4 0
6 each. Think anything of it. HTH
a pleasure to have you with us. It's a pleasure to have you with us. There's so many would like to ask you there are too expensive for something he had done all his life. Right right. And Carolyn Brown was on the other side of him and the three of you. And I thought as we did that I think you're going or very similar group. No no problem got very proud of
having a problem with you.
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Series
TV Laboratory
Episode
Merce by Merce by Paik
Producing Organization
Thirteen WNET
Contributing Organization
Thirteen WNET (New York, New York)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/75-676t1r3c
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Description
Series Description
"TV Laboratory is a series that showcases the work of artists-in-residence, primarily video art."
Description
This production by TV Lab's artist-in-residence Nam June Paik features a collaboration between the electronic wizardry of Paik and the choreographic genius of Merce Cunningham. The artists perform two works: "Blue Studio" and "Merce and Mercel." The project was supported with funds from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and NEA.
Broadcast Date
1978-09-14
Asset type
Episode
Topics
Fine Arts
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:29:10
Credits
Producing Organization: Thirteen WNET
AAPB Contributor Holdings
Thirteen - New York Public Media (WNET)
Identifier: wnet_aacip_7422 (WNET Archive)
Format: U-matic
Generation: Master
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Chicago: “TV Laboratory; Merce by Merce by Paik,” 1978-09-14, Thirteen WNET, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 21, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-676t1r3c.
MLA: “TV Laboratory; Merce by Merce by Paik.” 1978-09-14. Thirteen WNET, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 21, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-676t1r3c>.
APA: TV Laboratory; Merce by Merce by Paik. Boston, MA: Thirteen WNET, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-676t1r3c