Video Sparks/Reflexive　2014-2015

Art Promenade in ASAGAYA/ “Wall to Wall”

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Asia- Vacuumed Cityscape

venue: Sakaiki

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VIDEOREFLEXIVE Vol.3 Video : Collage / Montage
vol.1 Kentaro TAKI Video Collage/Puzzling
7 Nov.(fri.) 2014
vol.2 Shuhei NISHIYAMA Video Montage/Shredding
14 Nov.(fri.) 2014

talk session: Kentaro Taki & Masahiro Hiramoto( Japanese only)
talk session Shuhei Nishiyama & Ryo Sawayama( Japanese only)

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Video reflexive series
Ko NAKAJIMA Video Vicissitudes
vol.1 Generation and Vicissitude of Media
10(fri.) Oct 2014
vol.2 5th Elements of Video Art
17(fri.) Oct 2014
Venue: UPLINK 1F factory(shibuya, Tokyo)

talk session Ko Nakajima & Sen Uesaki (Japanese only)
talk session: Ko Nakajima & Christophe Charles (Japanese only)

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INSPIRATION AND TRANSFORMATION by Madelon Hooykaas　 the Netherlands’video pioneer from the 70's till now

Date: 1 June(sun.) 2014
Venue: Sakaiki

artist talk: Madelon Hooykaas(japanese only)

Ko NAKAJIMA "Video Vicissitudes"


VIDEO:Collage/Montage Kentaro Taki+Shuhei Nishiyama


Hakudo KOBAYASHI's video performance”AQUA WORKS 2015”

Video Art Promenade in ASAGAYA/ “Wall to Wall”

Hunt for the video art hidden in the city light!

Overview of the project:
This art project let audience to seek and observe the works located in the various parts of the city. A word, 'Promenade' is originated in France, means taking a nice long walk. Audience searche for an art work with a map that’s provided for them. Without worrying about the “rules” of the art , they are able to enjoy the work fully with their own moment and the space. Rather than having art show in ordinary indoor spaces, such as theater or the museum, we are setting up a stage in the several places in urban city (Wall to Wall) to invite audiences into unexpected encounter with the work of imagery= video art.

date: 20(fri.)-22(sun.)Feb. + 27(fri.)Feb.-1(sun.)Mar. 2015
17:30-20:30
venue: several places around Asagaya sta. and TAV Gallery
fee: 1000yen(1drink+exhibition map)










[artists]
Ryota HAMASAKI / Sung Nam HAN / Masayuki KAWAI / Ko NAKAJIMA / Shuhei NISHIYAMA / Kentaro TAKI / Keigo YAMAMOTO and more....

presented by VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo
cooperated by TAV Gallery, Gallery Hakusen, Asagaya Art Street
S_upported byArts Council Tokyo






How to access
Video screenings are interspersed around the town. For looking for video pieces, you need exhibition map, which shows also drinks, foods and local information. Let's get the exhibition map at TAV gallery at first!

beggining point: TAV Gallery
From North exit of Asagaya sta. (JR chuo line), across Nakasugi -dori street to SEIYU super market, and walk along with the street to north direction, after 300m, right side, a corner of white building is TAV gallery
http://tavgallery.com/access/

google map

[VideoSparks Series]
Hakudo KOBAYASHI's video performance”AQUA WORKS 2015”
(with live sound by Tsumugine)

Hakudo KOBAYASHI is one of the pioneers of videoart in Japan. This program shows his retrospective and new video perforomance with live sound. Look! Hakudo's first calligraphy of the year on video monitor!

date: 24(sat.) January 2015 start:19:00 - 21:00 (open:18:30-)
venue: Sakaiki http://sakaiki.modalbeats.com/
access: click
entrance fee:1500yen (with 1 drink)




[screening program] 
Kunya Kunya （1973）
Play the Video　（1974）
Lapse　Communication(1975)
Le Palais Ideal　（1999）
Un known Land　（2011）
Swim （2012）
Aqua Works （2010/ 2013）
Panorama （2010-2015） 

[live performance]
”AQUA WORKS 2015”
video performance by Hakudo KOBAYASHI
with live sound by Tsumugine

Hakudo KOBAYAYSHI Born in Sendai city, 1944. After graduating Tama Art University in 1968, Kobayashi presented his Hakudo Machine series at Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition and Osaka Expo 1970. In 1971 he organized communication games using Telex with Fujiko Nakaya and has worked in video media since. As well as teaching at Seian University, he has made single channel video pieces, organized a video community system in Kunitachi City in Tokyo and campaigned for CATV and Citizen Video.

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Tsumugine TSUMUGINE is sound performing group founded by Yasuno Miyanouchi, since year 2008. Its performing style doesn’t need music score but with voice, keyboard harmonica, and those particle of sounds become special environmental sonic effects. They won the first prize at “Experimental sound, art and performance Festival 2008” organized by Tokyo Wonder Site. They perform not only solo concert but also alternative space as a gallery, an old house and tunnel. Recently they have music workshop called as “Tsumugine Methods” web site= www.tsumugine.com/

produced by VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo
supported by Arts Council Tokyo

Video Sparks presents video screening event titled as "Asia- Vacuumed Cityscape".

date: 15(sat.) Nov. 2014  start19:00-
entrance fee:1500yen with 1 drink
venue: Sakaiki (Yotsuya sanchome/ Tokyo) http://sakaiki.modalbeats.com/
how to access to Sakaiki:click





[program]
"Nostalgia"(2014 7') Nguyen Nhu Huy (Vietnam )
"KAMPUNG HAKKA" (2014 5'30" ) Andrew Stiff (Malaysia)
"Bleached Nightmare"(2013, 13')Richard Coronel (Philippines)
"MUD GAME" (2014 3'40")　KOK Siew-Wai(Malaysia)
"16 x 9 Capsule" (2014 6'40") Wuttin Chansataboot (Thailand)
"CAGE" (2012 9'44") LIM Chee-Yong(Malaysia/Taiwan)
"Iqra" (2005, 3')Ari Satria Darma (Indonesia)
"MIST" (2012 3'50") WONG Eng-Leong (Malaysia)



presented by VCT/VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo
supported by Arts Council Tokyo
cooperated by KLEX Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film & Video Festival, VIDEO ART Philipinas, Zero Station/ga 0 O.K. Video Festival

Chopping off videos into pieces, an experiment of the two young video artists from 2000’s,Kentaro Taki and Shuhei Nishiyama’s, will be analyzed as video collage and montage.

VIDEOREFLEXIVE Vol.3  Video : Collage / Montage 

vol.1  Kentaro TAKI  Video Collage/Puzzling
7 Nov.(fri.) 2014 start 19：30(open19：00）- 21:30 
screening and talk session with Kentaro TAKI + Masahiro HIRAMOTO(musician)   

vol.2 Shuhei NISHIYAMA Video Montage/Shredding
14 Nov.(fri.) 2014 start 19：30(open19：00）- 21:30   
screening and talk session with Shuhei NISHIYAMA + Ryo SAWAYAMA(art critic )   

venue: UPLINK　1F Factory(1F totsune build. Udagawacho Shibuya, Tokyo) TEL.03-6825-5503
fee : 1500yen, student1000yen
presented by UPLINK, VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo
supported by Arts Council Tokyo

vol.1 Facebooksite
vol.2 Facebooksite






vol.1 Artist Profile  Kentaro TAKI Born in 1973. In 1996 Completion, Master degree of fine arts of ‘Master course of Department of Imaging Arts and Sciences Musashino Art University. As dispatched artist granted by Cultural Agency of Japan(2002), POLA Art Foundation (2003) in Karlsruhe. Germany. Won "Graz BIX Media Competition" Grand Prix + Peter Cook Prize double winner(2005, Graz, Austria), Bochum Video Festival Organizer Prize(2005, Bochum, Germany).
Exhibition and screening in "Aviso Especial" installation (2009, Centro Multi Media, Mexicocity), "Nippon Connection"(2009, mousontrum, Frankfurt Germany),"Asian Art Biennial 2009 Viewpoints and Viewing Points"(2009,Taiwan National Art Museum), MJVAX:Malaysia-Japan Video Art Exhibition(2010, National Art Gallery Malaysia), "VIDEO LIFE"(2011, two men show with Ko NAKAJIMA, st.Paulst Gallery at AUT, Auckland, New Zealand)etc. http://takiscope.jp



vol.2 Artist Profile  Shuhei NISHIYAMA
Born in 1976, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Majored art criticism at Ritsumeikan University. Influenced from avangarde cinema and videoart and started to make video works from 1998. Works are made as not only media for representation but also tools and words tools for thought. Making single channel video, installation, performance works. Stayed in Australia from 2007 to 2008 and had an indivisual exhibition in Sydeney. Living and making works in Tokyo from 2009. The Works has been shown for many film festivals in France, Germany, America, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Korea. http://www.shuhei2480.net/

[related event] Gallery exhibition Kentaro TAKI+Shuhei NISHIAYAMA UPLINK1F Gallery 5 (wed.)-24 (mon.) November 2014 open10：00-22：00 entrance free

Video Sparks!
is a series of events about cross over genre with videoart. It's forcusing on the session and improvisation of video and other art field, as dance, music, poetry reading and theater piece, or video screening show of foreign condition of visual art.
coming up event:
"Asia - Vcuumed Cityscape" 15 Nov. 2014
"Hakudo Kobayashi - video performance" Jan. 2015

previous event:
"Madelon Hooykaas -the Netherlands’video pioneer from the 70's till now-" June 2014
"Man and Woman" Mar. 2014
"Voice and Silence" Jan. 2014

also we're providing the other video retrospective event as "Video Reflexive" focuses on Masayuki Kawai(Dec. 2013, Jan. 2014), Ko Nakajima(Oct. 2014),  Kentaro Taki+ Shuhei Nishiyama(Nov.2014)

[video sparks vol.4]
INSPIRATION AND TRANSFORMATION by Madelon Hooykaas　
the Netherlands’video pioneer from the 70's till now

Retrospective video art screening and artist talk by Madelon Hooykaas. Also she will have a short live performance by using video screening and action drawing.

Date: 1 June(sun.) 2014  19:00-21:00 (screening, performance and artist talk)
Entrance fee:1500yen with 1 drink
Venue: Sakaiki (Yotsuya sanchome/ Tokyo)  http://sakaiki.modalbeats.com/
how to access to Sakaiki:click

[video reflexive vol.1]
The Omniazimuth Video Art of Masayuki Kawai

　Retrospective video art screening event of Masayuki Kawai, who is known as video performer or event organizer, however since late 1990's, he continued to make single channel video works. This screening traces his footprints.

vol.1:: 15 December 2013  open 14:50, start 15:00-
               after screening/talk event:Masayuki Kawai x Yu Kaneko
vol.2:: 26 January 2014 open 14:50, start 15:00-
               after screening/talk event:Masayuki Kawai x Natsuko Tezuka
entrance 1500yen/ students 1000yen

details/reserve　UPLINK WEBsite

screening list
vol.1 15 Dec. 2013
1.”a not = a or For Devatas Who Keep On Dancing” (2000 16min.)
2. “About a Theological　Situation in the Society of Spectacle” (2001 6min.)
3. “Man’yo/Tokyo” （2004 23min.）
4. “IN/OUT” (2009, 5min.)　
all pieces with English subtitles.

vol.2   26 Jan. 2014
1.”De Visione Absentis”（2004 37min.）
2.”Who are these wanderers, even more transient than we ourselves? ” (2007 40min.)
all pieces with English subtitles.