- Exchange and Evolution : Worldwide Video Long Beach 1974-1999
The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) -
October 7, 2011 - February 12, 2012
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The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA)
2300 East Ocean Blvd
Long Beach, CA 90803
(562) 439-2119
- Mako Idemitsu shows " Kiyoko's Situation 1989 "
- Exchange and Evolution: Worldwide Video Long Beach examines and highlights key moments from the video program at the Long Beach Museum of Art between 1974 and 1999, and organizations and individuals who collaborated with the Museum. Some thirty international artists whose work was exhibited at LBMA during this time will be on view, and programmed are four screening events that celebrate the LBMA video studio and honors its Videonights. Two of the screening events are scheduled to take place at REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater), in partnership with California Institute of the Arts, a long-time supporter of video art and collaborator with Long Beach Museum of Art.
Selected artists for Exchange and Evolution include: Marina Abramovic/Ulay, Klaus vom Bruch, Robert Cahen, Tony Cokes, Juan Downey, Ed Emshwiller, Vera Frenkel, Thomas Allen Harris, Gary Hill, Nan Hoover, General Idea, Mako Idemitsu, Sanja Ivekovic, Joan Jonas, Shigeko Kubota, Thierry Kuntzel, Victor Masayesva, Jr., Bjorn Melhus, Antoni Muntadas, Ko Nakajima, Marcel Odenbach, Nam June Paik, Lisa Steele, Turppi Group (Marikki Hakola, Lea Kantonen, Pekka Kantonen, Jarmo Vellonen, Martti Kukkonen), Edin Velez, Steina Vasulka, Woody Vasulka, and Bill Viola. The exhibition and screening series is curated by Kathy Rae Huffman and Nancy Buchanan.
- The Second Nakanoshima Film Theater : Japanese Video Art -1980
October 22, 2011 - October 23, 2011
- The National Museum of Art, Osaka
4-2-55 Nakanoshima, kita-ku, Osaka, 530-0005, Japan
(06) 6447-4680
- Mako Idemitsu shows
October 22, 2011, Saturday, 3 pm Program B-
" Great Mother (SACHIKO) 1984 "
" Yoji, What's Wrong with You? 1987 "
" Kiyoko's Situation 1989 "
- October 23, 2011, Sunday, 1 pm Program B-
" Great Mother (SACHIKO) 1984 "
" Yoji, What's Wrong with You? 1987 "
" Kiyoko's Situation 1989 "
- Exchange and Evolution: Worldwide Video Long Beach examines and highlights key moments from the video program at the Long Beach Museum of Art between 1974 and 1999, and organizations and individuals who collaborated with the Museum. Some thirty international artists whose work was exhibited at LBMA during this time will be on view, and programmed are four screening events that celebrate the LBMA video studio and honors its Videonights. Two of the screening events are scheduled to take place at REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater), in partnership with California Institute of the Arts, a long-time supporter of video art and collaborator with Long Beach Museum of Art.
- Mako Idemitsu, Past Ahead 2005
- Video Installation at MOT, Tokyo by Mako Idemitsu, Music by Carl Stone
The photographs are of my older sister & I..... They recall the calm & ordinary life of the people in those days. They were taken in the early 1940's when the Japanese Army was invading other Asian countries and attacked Pearl Harbor.
Currently, Japan is enjoying a similarly calm period while Japanese troops are stationed in Iraq. Isn't there a similarity between now and then around us? Using my own family album and past documentary photos of the Japanese Army,
I intend to visualize the dissociation between the life of ordinary citizens and current military movements. Just as in the past, Japan is experiencing a calm period without realizing it is involved in a war! Let us look and think about the condition we are now facing!
by Mako Idemitsu
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Published by Iwanami Shoten, the novel spans more than 30 years in the life of a Japanese woman and her family. While in the United State during 1960's Idemitsu met Sam Francis who she married and had two sons. As she developed her roles as wife, mother and artist, she found herself in the company of luminaries such as Henry Miller, isamu Noguch, Anais Nin and Ry Cooder.
