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Ko Nakajima, one of Japan's most innovative and respected video
artists, and his protégé Kentaro Taki offer a fascinating view of
the historical and contemporary faces of Japanese video art,
highlighting its unique sensibilities and aesthetics.
White Night, 12 March, 6:00pm -
midnight
Nakajima's major new installation Electric Luminance
Performance combines Taoist philosophy and the natural
environment with new and obsolete video technology. Alongside this
work he presents his ongoing project My Life 1976 -
2010.
Taki's work represents a younger generation of Japanese video
and performance artists, and explores the impacts of mass
communication and globalisation on contemporary life. He presents
several works including Living in the Box and a new
version of his acclaimed installation Bild:Muell.
Both artists also give unique live performances at ST PAUL St
Gallery. In collaboration with local improvisers - musicians and
dancers - Nakajima creates a performance work responding to and
activating Electric Luminance Performance. Informed by the
idea of finding a path to an artwork through process, rather than
becoming attached to an outcome. Taki presents a live
video-performance combining analogue and digital processes.
Curated by intermedia artist Phil Dadson in association with ST
PAUL St Gallery, Video Life is both a meditation and a
provocative presentation of video technology's impact on
contemporary society.
Free
performance: Saturday 5 March, 7:30pm -
9:00pm
Where: ST PAUL ST Gallery
Artist talk: Tuesday 8 March, 5:30pm
Where: AUT Lecture Theatre WE230
Workshop: Friday 4 March - Sunday 6 March. Contact ST PAUL ST
Gallery for details and application forms.
Where: ST PAUL ST Gallery
Hours:
Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm / Sat, 12pm-4pm
IMAGE: Kentaro Taki, Bild:Muell#1
"Wand", 2006, at Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama
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