SKY KISS

The very best performance of "Sky Kiss" was in Sydney, Australia, in 1976 around the Sydney Opera House. John Calder had invited Paik and me to perform and we did the "TV Bra", the "TV Cello", the "TV Bed", all those things ... It was the week before Easter and they were doing Bach's "St. Matthew's Passion" inside and I did the best version of "Sky Kiss" outside.

They came out for intermission of the St. Matthew's Passion and they really thought they were seeing visions as I was floating by outside.

When he said he was going to do a "Sky Art Conference", I said I must do "Sky Kiss". I called Jim McWilliams because they needed a statement for the catalog and I asked him, "Why do you call this "Sky Kiss". Jim thought that was a silly question and said because the kiss is the most recorded of erotic experiences... He said that when my body goes into the sky, my cello and I are kissing the sky.

(Interview recorded August 6, 1982, New York City)

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