Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver’s Cinematic Illumination
August 27, 2020 – April 18, 2021
The Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY)
Collaborative Cataloging Japan is pleased to assist in the presentation of Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver’s Cinematic Illumination at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). As part of the Intermedia Art Festival at the discotheque Killer Joe’s, Tokyo, in 1969, Gulliver presented Cinematic Illumination (1968-69), a work involving eighteen slide projectors that illuminated the unique 360-degree environment.
Growing out of the ongoing efforts by CCJ’s partner researchers Go Hirasawa, Hiroko Tasaka, and Julian Ross to re-present this work, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum exhibited Cinematic Illumination in 2017 as part of the Expanded Cinema Revisited exhibition. As a continuation of these efforts, CCJ is delighted to assist in presenting this work in New York at MoMA.
Organized by Sophie Cavoulacos, Assistant Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art
Image: Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver. Cinematic Illumination. 1968-69. Installation view, Japanese Expanded Cinema: Revisited, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2017.
Exhibition information: https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5205
Press
Farago, Jason. “A Countercultural Dreamland From Tokyo Flickers at MoMA.” The New York Times (October 1, 2020). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/arts/design/expanded-cinema-gulliver-moma.html.
Macfarlane, Steve. “Destination Out: Cinematic Illumination, More Than Cinema and Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia.” The Brooklyn Rail (December 2020 - January 2021). https://brooklynrail.org/2020/12/film/Destination-Out-Cinematic-Illumination-More-Than-Cinema-and-Japanese-Expanded-Cinema-and-Intermedia
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As part of the Japanese Expanded Cinema research thread, CCJ partners Go Hirasawa and Hiroko Tasaka interviewed artist Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver in 2017. Hiroko Tasaka organized the exhibition Japanese Expanded Cinema Revisited at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in 2017, which included Gulliver’s Cinematic Illumination (1968-1969). Go Hirasawa was a major contributor to the exhibition.