Explorers

Photo : Vito Acconci, Virtual pleasure.

While Paik was looking at the medium of video as a technique to be exploited, or the field of a possible artistic revolution such as that which had been initiated by John Cage in music with his prepared pianos, Vostell, for his part, was approaching television as the instrument of a coercive social ritual.

It was from these complementary and opposite postulates that the artistic practices manifested themselves, marking contemporary creation in an indelible way between 1963 and the end of the 1970s. The main stages of this pioneering period will be retraced, with works by Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, Peter Campus, Dan Graham, Dennis Oppenheim, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Piotr Kowalski, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Bill Viola, and Marina Abramovic & Ulay.

The first experiments

Historical context

Artistic project

biennale d'art contemporain de lyon 95