Subject: CCA:Scramble Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 13:02:25 +0100 From: "Susannah Wesley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CCA TALKS
SCRAMBLE - the Japanese Video Works
Saturday 13 September: 6pm �3.50 (�2.00)
Panel Discussion - 7:15pm
Scramble curators Ken Kondo and Hana Sakumo in discussion with film critic Hannah McGill (The Herald). �
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SCRAMBLE is the first major touring exhibition of Japanese Video Art in the UK.� It showcases the latest video works by eleven young, cutting-edge Japanese Artists, and presents video documentation of the Dutch Artist Iepe Rubingh's controversial 'Joker performance' in Tokyo. �All the works were produced recently using the latest technology and many of them have not been shown in this country before.�
SCRAMBLE reflects some unique aspects of the highly complex and multifaceted contemporary Japanese culture.� Some of the artists show vividly the fashion of Tokyo urban life, others deal with their inner world, and one engagingly documents the reaction of a mass of young Japanese people to an unexpected intervention in their city.� The various fragments of imaginary or slightly unrealistic scenes of 'Japan' invite the audience to catch an intimate and momentary glimpse of the Japanese sensibility.
Programme 1
The first part features works symbolising aspects of urban space such as alienation, concentration of population, high technology and hyper-reality, and has an aesthetic of artificiality. Some works deal with issues very specific to a metropolis in Japan while some were filmed in London.� However, the fundamental aspects found in the works are common in big cities around the world.� These works elevate urban daily-life, creating a surreal world.�
The selected artists: So-hei Hatakeyama, Seiji Hori, Yasu Ichige, Saki Satom, Taro Takahashi and Masato Wakabayashi. �(curated by Ken Kondo)
Programme 2
The video works selected convey images of animals or human-like creatures such as a bear, a dog and uniquely deformed characters.� The images are used without guilt in ways that are visually humorous and entertaining.� The works seem concerned neither with questions of human authority nor with differences between human and animal perspectives.� They neither reinforce nor undermine human complacency and certainty. �What then, are these works about?
The selected artists: Mika Funaki, Akio Hato, Akiko Ikeda, Tomoko Kaneko and Meiro Koizumi.� (curated by Hana Sakuma)
Programme 3
The last part is the UK premier of video documentation of Iepe B. T. Rubingh's 'the joker performance' in an intersection in Tokyo in 2000.� The artist appeared, dressed as a joker, while dozens of his followers roped off one of the busiest intersections in Tokyo with plastic tapes, and blocked the traffic for three minutes.� He was then arrested by police in front of about 5,000 passers-by.� The piece shows the amazing city landscape with huge numbers of young Japanese people and their enthusiastic yet instant reactions to his performance.� Is the artist a hero, or a victim of 'the Japanese consumerism power game'?�
17:45���� Door open
18:00���� Programme 1 (curated by Ken Kondo)
��������������� 1. You shall lose something, 2000, 4'30''
��������������� ��������������� �� So-hei Hatakeyama
��������������� 2. Alarm, 1999, 2'30''
��������������� ��� ����������� ���Masato Wakabayashi
��������������� 3. moving walkway, 2002, 1'00''
�� Saki Satom
��������������� 4. RALLY, 1996, 2'00''
�������������� ���Yasu Ichige
��������������� 5. virtigo, 2000, 5'30''
�������������� ���Seiji Hori
��������������� 6. a letter from Mr. Konnyakuro, 1999, 3'30''
Taro Takahashi
18:25���� Break
18:35���� Programme 2 (curated by Hana Sakuma)
��������������� 1. Fhe wav a very veautiful woman..., 2001, 7'30''
����������������� Meiro Koizumi
��������������� 2. The white bear from London:Tokyo:North Pole, 2002, 1'30''
������������������ Mika Funaki
��������������� 3. White dog, 1999, 5'00''
����������������� Akio Hato
��������������� 4. MY END is MY BEGINNING, 2002, 3'30''
����������������� Tomoko Kaneko
��������������� 5. It wasn't play at all, 2001, 2'00''
����������������� Akiko Ikeda
19:00���� Break
19:05���� Programme 3
��������������� ��� THE JOKER PERFORMANCES, 2000, 9'30''
��������������� ��� ����������� Iepe. B.T. Rubingh
19:15���� Discussion
19:40���� The end of the night
SCRAMBLE is generously supported by The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and The Japan Foundation
SCRAMBLE is organized/curated by Hana Sakuma and Ken Kondo.� It is generously supported by The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and The Japan Foundation.
Susannah Wesley
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