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New Video: Japan Frontcover: DENO newvideo: Japan NewVideo: Japan A Video Exhibition Co-Organizedbv The American Federationof Arts and The Museumof Modern Art, NewYork Guest Curator: Barbara London, The Museum of Modern Art This video exhibition and its accompanying publications are supported by grants from the Japan- United States Art Program of the Asian Cultural Council, the Japan-United States Friendship Com mission, and Sony Magnetic Products Company.New Video; Japan was originally presented in New York as part of "(dose-up of Japan, New York 1985-6," supported by a grant from Mitsui Group. Additional support for the catalog has been provided by the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the DeWitt WallaceFund through the AFA'sRevoloving Fund for Publications. All videotapes are 3/4", sound, and on loan from the artist unless otherwise noted. Institutionsinterested in presentingNew Video: Japan FrontCover: DENO. Videotape by KatsuvaTaka,1985. or other AFAexhibitions should contact: Photo: Kira Perov. The AmericanFederation of Arts Film Program 41 East 65th Street. NewYork. NY 10021 BackCover: CONVERSATION STYLES: BALANCE. (212) 988-7700 VideotapebvTeiji Furuhashi. 1984. Photo: TeijiFuruhashi. Designedby StevenSchoenfelder Typographyby DesignTypographers, Inc. Copyright© 1985 by The AmericanFederation of Arts Printed bv ConceptualLitho The Museum of Modern Art Library Contents Acknowledgments 5 Mary Lea Bandy and Wilder Green New Video: Japan 7 Barbara London Programs 13 Program Notes ShoichiroAzuma 14 Masaki Fu jihala 15 Teiji Furuhashi 16 Daizaburo Harada and Haruhiko Shono 17 Makoldemitsu 18 Mao Kawaguchi and Ayumi Shino 19 NobuhiroKawanaka 20 KumikoKushiyama 21 AkiraMatsumoto 22 TetsuoMizuno 23 OsamuNagata 24 KoNakajima 25 KunioNoda 26 Jun Okazaki and Emi Segawa 27 NoriyukiOkuda 28 MakotoSaitoh 29 KatsuyaTaka 30 Shuntaro Tanikawa and Shuji Terayama 31 HironoriTerai 32 NaokoTosa 33 MorihiroWada 34 KeigoYamamoto 35 The American Federation of Arts Film Program The American Federation of Arts is a national, non-profit, museum service organization, founded in 1909 to broaden the knowledge and appreciation of the arts of the past and present. Its primary activities are the organization of art, film and video exhibitions that travel throughout the United States and abroad. The AFA Film Program is guided and advised by a National Film Advisory Committee composed of museum and media arts center directors, curators, educators, filmmakers and trustees. Film exhibitions organized from the broad areas of "films as art" (animation, experimental narrative, lyrical documentary, abstract film) and "films on art" (documentaries on the lives and works of artists and on historical and contemporary art movements) circulate widely to museums, universities, media arts centers, neighbor hood cultural centers and libraries, accompanied bv catalogs and program notes, press materials, stills and posters. In 1983, the AFAbegan traveling art video exhibitions in addition to film exhibitions. Cur rently-touring video exhibitions include Revising Romance: New Feminist Fideo and the 1985 Whitney Biennial f ideo Exhibition. The AFAFilm Program is also a primary source of high-quality prints bv film and video artists for media study collections. The American Federation of Arts Film Program is partially supported with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, and by the AFAFriends of Film and the Brown Foundation. The Museum of Modern Art Video Program The Museum's involvement with video began in 1968. when two videotapes by Nam June Paik were shown in the exhibition The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age. An ongoing video exhibition program was begun in 1974, followed shortly by the "Video Viewpoints'' lecture series. The Museum has been developing a video collection, which to date includes over 600 titles by independent and broadcast producers. The Museum's Video Program is supported bv the Sonv Corporation of America, and receives public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Acknowledg ments New Video:Japan , a touring exhibition of twenty- this catalog. On the ALAstaff, we wish to thank three works by artists at the forefront of Japanese Sam McElfresh. who served as coordinator of this video, has been jointly organized by The Museum project and who worked tirelesslv to bring the ex of Modern Art and The American Federation of hibition to completion; Sharon Doane for her Arts. It is a sequel to the first survey exhibition of work on the catalog; Tom Smith for organizing the Japanese video in the United States, Videofrom program's tour; and Lred Riedel for coordinating Tokyoto Fukui and Kyvto, which was organized by video loans. We also wish to acknowledge the fol The Museum of Modern Art in 1979 and traveled lowing for their valuable assistance on various as under the auspices of the International Program pects of the project: Junko Imai, Sony Corpora of the Museum to fifteen sites in the United States, tion. Tokyo; Norio Imai; Misao Kusumoto, North Asia and Europe. New Video:Japan also builds on Lort, Osaka; Akira Matsumoto; Keiko Murata; the success of a related traveling exhibition, Lujiko Nakaya and Keiko Sei, SCAN Gallery, Japanese Experimental Film 1960- 1980, which Tokvo; Warren Obluck. American Embassv, was organized bvThe American Federation of Arts Tokyo; Itsuo Sakane; Ryuichi Sakamoto; Yutaka in 1980 and has since traveled under AFAauspices Shigenobu. TV Man Union, Tokvo; Eshin to over forty museums and universities nationally Shishido, Osaka Contemporarv Art Center. and internationally. Special thanks are due to the Osaka; Katsue Tomiyama, Norio Nishijima and followingC colleaguesO and associates whose en- Takashi Nakajima. Image Lorum. Tokyo; To- thusiastic and continuous support has been criti momitsu Tonouchi and Miki Momozawa, VIC cal to the success of the project: Margot Ernst, Center, Tokvo; Shozo Tsuramoto; Sachiko Usui. Peter Grilli of Japan House, Richard Lanier of the American Cultural Center, Kvoto: Junko Wong; Asian Cultural Council, Donald Richie, Yasuo and Shigeo Yamada, Lukui Audio Visual Librarv. Tone, and Bill Viola. Fukui. The exhibition catalogue benefited from The AFAand the Museum are pleased to be able the skillful photographv of Kira Perov and from to offer tbis comprehensive exhibition of Japanese the handsome design of Steven Schoenfelder. Close-up video to a wide-ranging audience. Following its Weare most grateful to u of Japan. New premiere in NewYork at the Museum from January York 1985-6"7Mitsui Group, the Japan-United 16 to March 2, 1986, New Video:Japan will travel States Arts Program of the Asian Cultural Council. extensively throughout the United States and Sony Magnetic Products Company, and the Japan- abroad under AFAauspices. United States Friendship Commission for their Many individuals and institutions have made generous support of the project, and to the many valuable contributions toward the development of museums, universities and media arts centers that this video exhibition. First, we would like to ex will be presenting the exhibition in the coming press our thanks to Barbara London, Assistant years. Curator, Video, the Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art. As curator of New Video: Mary Lea Bandy Japan , Ms. London brings over a decade of in Director, Department of Lilm, The Museum of volvement with the exhibition and acquisition of Modern Art international experimental video. She has been re sponsible for the selection of titles, as well as for Wilder Green, the text, program notes and biographical data in Director, The American Federation of Arts NewVideo: Japan Barbara London Japan is a country of contrasts, where a landmark for contemporary art, including video. In the Buddhist temple, Mister Donut coffee shop, and United States, by contrast, for nearly twenty years home video store coexist on the same block, and federal and state agencies and private foundations where the art of wearing a kimono is almost forgot have funded video. Corporate sponsorship is ten bv a young generation that prefers French limited in Japan partly because it carries with it designer and punk clothes. The 1980s middle no tax advantages. The exception is JVC — Victor class likes the latest consumer items, enabling the Company of Japan — which in 1984 initiated an manufacture of home video equipment, for which annual $2,000 scholarship for videomakers. Japan has become so well known in the last twenty For nearly fifteen years independent video in years, to thrive in a receptive local market. Video Japan has been a relevant art form, but one oper has become integral to contemporary Japanese ating on the fringes of the cultural scene. Neither life, and reflects the traditions set by theater, bought and sold like a Sengai drawing, nor regu radio, film, and photography, and the inter larly broadcast like the weather, video by artists nationalization of popular culture. has not fit within accepted art or television mar Video has been called a ""bonsai"reality: in the keting systems. Distinguished by their access to same way that a carefully pruned miniature tree equipment and their intention, Japanese video- is a metaphor for nature, a video production is an makers generally have sought to produce their electronically manipulated representation of personal statements through equipment intended reality, one that is consistent with today's hectic for the amateur market; more recently a few pace. The consumer video camera is used like a artists have been actively seeking showings of still camera, as a personal recording tool, and the their work in the commercial world of broadcast video letter is a developing consumer genre: television. Artists began using video in Japan families send tapes of themselves to relatives in when the Sony Corporation released the first other cities. There are amateur video "reporters" portable camera and recording equipment to the clubs, whose members" documentary- style foot home market in the mid-sixties. The model for age of action-breaking news occasionally is broad experimentation with unusual media had been cast.
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