Variations on a Theme by Saint-Saens, by Nam June Paik

Charlotte Moorman performing Nam June Paik’s “Variations on a Theme by Saint-Saens“ at the ORF Studios in Linz, Austria, on the occasion of the Sky Art Conference/Ars Electronica in 1982. This, and other performance art works by Paik and Moorman, were produced by the Center For Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, Cambridge, MA, under the coordination and vision of then-director Otto Piene. “Variations“ represents one of Paik’s best examples of Fluxus-based performance art.