Community of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists in the US 1960s - 1970s
Philadelphia: Collaborative Cataloging Japan, 2024
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Community of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists in the US 1960s - 1970s, shown at the Philadelphia Art Alliance in 2024. The exhibition was curated by Ann Adachi-Tasch, Go Hirasawa, and Julian Ross, and features the work of 23 artists and artist collectives. The video works included in the exhibition examine the political climate in the US and Japan in the 1960s and 1970s. Namely responding to the civil rights movement, women's liberation, the rise of consumerism, and the bourgeoning counter culture. The featured artists use video as a means for political critique, as well as a mechanism to mobilize social change.
The catalogue includes a floor plan, a list of works, and QR codes linking to longer critical texts.
ITEM 2024.004 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Shelter 1999 – Takahiko limura and Alvin Lucier
Dream Real – Yukihisa Isobe and Jud Yalkut
Body Wave – Seiichi Fujii
TM – Takehisa Kosugi
Super Up – Kenji Kanesaka
Great Society – Masanori Ōe and Marvin Fishman
Head Game – Masanori Ōe
No Game – Masanori Ōe
Woman's House – Mako Idemitsu
Women – Mako Idemitsu
Video Girls and Video Songs for Navajo Sky – Shigeko Kobuta
Video Talk Show – Shigeko Kobuta
Being Women in Japan: Liberation Within My Family – Kyōko Michishita
Friends of Minamata Victims - Video Diary – Fujiko Nakaya
Liquid Projector – Kō Nakajima
Osaka Expo '70 – Kō Nakajima
Coke in the Hole – Terrence Reid
EAT – Katsuhiro Yamaguchi
Kite – Seiichi Fujii
Jinsei (Life) – Donald Richie
Gomi (Trash) – Mary Evans
2,880K=120 – Yasunao Tone
Dead Movie – Takahiko limura