Jud Yalkut is Happening!
32 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10003
Program 2: Saturday, June 6, 7:30 pm
EAI was pleased to collaborate with Anthology Film Archives to present two
tribute programs featuring the work of Jud Yalkut (1938-2013). Yalkut's moving
image work transcended and transformed media as he explored and merged film,
video, expanded cinema, performance, and installation. This approach embodied
the "intermix" that was at the core of Howard Wise's founding manifesto for
EAI. Jud Yalkut was a multi-media pioneer whose radical films and videos
remain as trippy and innovative today as they were back then. Born and raised
in NYC, Yalkut studied literature before turning to experimental cinema in the
early 1960s.
Starting in 1966 and continuing into the 1970s, he collaborated
with Nam June Paik on a series of significant video-film pieces, creating
extraordinary conversations between the medium of film and the electronic
manipulations of video. These ideas extended to kinetic reworkings of
performances and art events, as seen in his 1973 video realization of Paik and
Charlotte Moorman performing John Cage's 26'.1.1499' FOR STRING PLAYER, and
his digital rendering of Moholy-Nagy's 1930 kinetic sculpture LIGHT-SPACE
MODULATOR. These two screenings at Anthology Film archives featured some
of Yalkut's best-known works alongside an exciting array of never-before-seen
footage.
