Made in Japan: New Video: Japan at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City Jan. 16-March 2
Afterimage, Summer 1986, v. 14, no. 1, pp. 18-19
A review of an exhibit of Japanese video that includes a brief history of video in that country. Wooster suggests that Japan, for all its powerhouse status, does not have a strong tradition of independent video making. She identifies Japanese video as emphasising the medium's visual qualities rather than approaching it as a didactic or narrative medium. The tapes often take on traditional Japanese art forms and subvert them by applying their style to taboo subjects like sex or contrasting iconic images of the Japan of the past with digitally reworked versions.
ITEM 1986.100 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Great Mother Part II: Yumiko – Mako Idemitsu
Maitreya – Masaki Fujihata
Ordinary Life – Hironori Terai
T.V. Army – Haruhiko Shono
T.V. Army – Daizuboro Harada
Hideo It Is Me – Mako Idemitsu
A Lakeside Event - Handicapped Year '81 Summer Camp – Akira Matsumoto
Faster than the Wind – Jun Okazaki
Faster than the Wind – Emi Segawa
Kuniyama-shiriji – Shouichiro Azuma
Obsolete Theater – Noriyuki Okuda
Spinning Time – Nobuhiro Kawanaka
House in Oikoshi – Kumiko Kushiyama
Scale – Kunio Noda
A-R-K – Makoto Saito
Converstation Styles: Dumb Talk, Balance – Teiji Furuhashi
5.29 Ayumi Shino – Ayumi SHino
Mt. Fuji – Ko Nakajima
Hard Scratch – Haruhiko Shono
Hard Scratch – Daizuboro Harada