Merce by Merce by Paik: Part One: Blue Studio: Five Segments

Merce by Merce by Paik is a two-part tribute to groundbreaking choreographer Merce Cunningham. Blue Studio: Five Segments is based on a choreography devised by Cunningham specifically for the video camera and manipulated by artist Charles Atlas, who was then filmmaker-in-residence with the Cunningham Dance Company. Cunningham is multiplied here, overlaid and transported from the studio to a series of unexpected landscapes. His gestural dance is accompanied by a fragmented audio collage that includes the voices of John Cage and artist Jasper Johns.