HCMC – Videologue – A Brief Report on Japanese Video Art

HCMC – Videologue – A Brief Report on Japanese Video Art

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"Living in box" by Kentaro Taki & Naoya Ooe

15 – 31 May 2011
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From Zerostation:

Collaborating with Independent art space Ruangrupa (www.ruangrupa.org), Jakarta, Indonesia, we would love to introduce a researching display of 7 video art piece by Japanese video artists from Tokyo Video Art Center.

Without profit, this display (accompanied with a catalogue) aims to create a platform for audience, journalists and young artists to approach to good video art works from one of important video art centre of the world. Supporting for this project is Japan Foundation Culture Exchanging Center in Vietnam.

Artworks introduction

1-Life (2006) 13 minutes
Artist : Kazumi KANEMAKI
The juxtaposition of the images between a Western movie by Hollywood and the artist’s routine life in the split screen, makes us compare the drama and the daily life. This also shows her daily life where surrounding images internalizes her. This work involves gender issues, since there is an attitude that as a woman it’s hard to accept herself as the “Loser” in the Western movie.

2-Living in Box (2007) 7 minutes
Artists: Kentaro Taki & Naoya Ooe
Body parts are displayed in the white box as specimen. Each part tries to seek something and these behaviors seem to remind ourselves of today’s blockaded situation. This is the collaboration work with Naoya Ooe(operation) + Maiko Date(dancer) directed by Kentaro Taki. This is the short version of the original work

3-Shot (2007) 11 minutes
Artist: Nishiyama Shuhei
Each “moment” of destructive force of the reality has been shot, recorded, and visualized. Set the boundary of before and after deconstruction at the “moment” when image and sound of collision match together, and the artist visualizes idea of “non-revertible.” This work deconstructs the image of deconstruction by differentiation, repetition, expansion and addition of image/sound of different moments

4- Pathologic Video Practices (2006) 2 minutes
Artist: Naoya Ooe
The simulation of how audiences reacted to films in early times, evokes the sense of falsehood but new perspectives. The extendation relates to the reference to media that to release from captivity of information system.

5- The lost in the Backyard of Surface (2006) 7 minutes
Artist: Naoya Ooe
This video is also the one in which artist tries to show the ways we react to images. All images, even though being captured from reality, once become imaged, becoming fiction as well in terms of stirring the fictional behavior of audience who is watching it. In this work, artist used his own video shooting himself when he was a child in order to structure interpretations, fictions, and a highly poetic and sad tales of himself.

6-“Abrare Koinobori” GOLDENSHIT (2005) 15 minutes
Artists: Katsuyuki HATTORI & Yusuke SHINMURA
This video consists of 6 acts of rhythmical and optical composition of a live quartet. The spectator encounters the boundary between the light and the image. A documentation of the premiere performance at Art Space Kimura, Tokyo in 2005.

7-Bild:Muell: Video installation (2006) 5 minutes
Artist: Kentaro Taki
A documentation of a video installation exhibited in Yokohama Portside Gallery in 2006. “Bild:Muell” means “Image: Junk” in German. The video collage projected on various shaped cubes simulates the cityscape overflowed with images/information.

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