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."