Having moved to Germany in 1956, Nam June Paik joined a group of artists who vigorously led the Fluxus movement. Hommage à John Cage: Music for Tapes and Piano derives from Paik’s encounter with Cage and the incident’s influence on Paik. The performance is comprised of four movements; while a collage of recorded sounds ranging from classical music to daily noise plays on the tape, Paik plays, destroys, and knocks down a “prepared piano” on stage. The photograph is from a preview performed in 1959 at Paik’s studio in Cologne. This photograph is a scene from a performance held at Galerie 22, Dusseldorf, in 1959. Composer Isang Yun stands at the left side of Nam June Paik
