Charlotte Moorman

(Arkansas, 1933-New York, 1991)

Julliard-trained cellist, performer and key figure of the New York avant-garde of the 60s-70s. He composed many of his works with video artist Nam June Paik. Moorman embeds technological scraps in her skin, embracing June Paik or her cello, she demystifies the means of mechanical reproduction. He subjects his cello to all kinds of experiments and improvises instruments with unusual objects. In 1963, he founded the annual New York Avant Garde Festival, an open forum for the experimental music scene, fluxus and video art.
Together with June Paik, she created TV Bra for Living Sculpture, a piece where two tiny video screens covered her Moorman breasts and her cello overshadowed her nudity. In an irreverent way they explored the connections between art and popular culture and ironicized about the omnipresence of television, its language and content.