Taka iimura at MoMA, New York
Thursday, January 10, 2013, 6:00 p.m.
Theater
3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater), mezzanine, The Museum of Modern Art,
11West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019-5497 (212) 708-9400
In
the program of Tokyo: Experiments in Music and Performance featuring
Yasunao Tone, an experimental musician and sound artist in Tokyo and New
York since the 1960s, Tone has a work with score for 8mm film
projector. Taka
iimura performed the work with a film "DADA62"(1962) based on the score
at Naiqua Gallery, Tokyo, 1963, called it "Film Concert" using the
projector as an instrument. This is a revival performance by iimura
after 49 years later. "DADA62" is also exhibited at sixth floor Tokyo
1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde at MoMA through Feb.25, 2013.(T.I)
Saturday,
January 12, 2013, 2:30p.m.
Theater 2, T2, Museum of Modern Art, 11West 53 Street, New York, NY
10019-5497 Introduced by Takahiko iimura
Japanese Underground Cinema Program : Takahiko iimura
An experimental filmmaker and video artist in Tokyo and New York since
the 1960s, Takahiko iimura has a program from his early period in the
1960s produced in Tokyo. In the beautifully choreographed Anma(1963) and
Rose Color Dance(1965) by Tatsumi Hijikata, the founder of Ankoku Butoh
dance, Takahiko iimura transforms his camera into an extension of his
body. In Junk(1962), Love(1962), and Onan(1964), iimura improvises with
vanguard musicians Takehisa Kosugi, Yoko Ono, and Yasunao Tone, with
exhilarating results. Of Love Jonas Mekas reviewed as "a poetic and
sensuous exploration of the body."
