Lee Stabert introduces Masanori Ōe, a key artist for our Community of Images exhibition and for counterculture filmmaking in both the US and Japan. A filmmaker, writer, and translator, he was a young man when he left Japan for New York City in the mid-1960s.
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We are pleased to take the opportunity in the Community of Images exhibition to conduct research in Akiko Iimura’s legacy as writer, translator, and filmmaker. With help of Kentaro Taki of the Videoart Center Tokyo, and Yukishige Takesue, former colleague of Akiko’s at OCS, we dug into her films and news articles she had written. We located Akiko’s original films at the Iimura’s studio in Tokyo, and newly digitized in 2024. Takesue dug into the OCS archive and identified key articles in which she reported on the avant-garde arts scene in the 1980s and 1990s.
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In March 2023, as part of the Community of Images exhibition project, we partnered with Videoart Center Tokyo to research materials at Takahiko Iimura’s studio in Tokyo. We were in search of materials related to Shelter 9999, a collaborative work between Takahiko Iimura and composer Alvin Lucier.
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Claudia Siefen-Leitich explores the filmography of Tokyo-based, Frankfurt-educated filmmaker Goh Harada.
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