Robot K-456 in “24 Hours”

Rolf Jährling turned his Galerie Parnass at Wuppertal into a stage for happenings and invited six artists—Joseph Beuys, Bazon Brock, Paik, Eckart Rahn, Tomas Schmit and Wolf Vostell—to perform in separate rooms for 24 hours. For his contribution to the event, Paik brought his remote–controlled Robot K–456, piloting it around the villa’s ground floor as an additional performer: a “non-human action artist.”