"Beatles Electronique" reflects the interest of Paik by manipulating pop icons. This collection of work includes examples of germ appropriation of fragments of mass media, deconstruction and manipulation as political and cultural criticism.
Personal images on a beach in Tel Aviv collide with broadcast images from a beach in Gaza. Private tranquility turns into public horror in an instant, and possibilities of reality are repressed, raising perceptual and existential questions.
3ra Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.
“What is today, is not what it was yesterday nor what it will be tomorrow.” In this sentence the despair and the resignation of the ex fishers of Muynaq, a little city on those being the coast of Aral Sea. The city, being a ghost one by now, and its inhabitants are the victims of an unstoppable environmental disaster, going on since decades.
A portrait of a teastand-holder in Calcutta/India: "If I sleep my luck is sleeping too."
The sun does not always shine in Barcelona, the “best shop in the world” according to the slogan of a City Council campaign. The thousands of tourists who visit Barcelona every month boost the city's economy, but their social and human impact is often overlooked. The precarious nature of jobs in tourism, real estate pressure from the hotels, and the types of problems that crop up when a city turns into a kind of theme park in an attempt to seduce outsiders. The classic problems of global capitalism, reflected in one of the country's major industries... “BCN Thematic Park” talks about all this... about Barcelona, a city-advertisement that is turning into the newest theme park on the international market.
UntitledPost-natal obsessions.
UntitledA promotional video from German multinational Bayer. A euphoric vision and a justification of its commercial activities.