VIDEO LIFE
Ko Nakajima and Kentaro Taki (Japan)
ST PAUL St Gallery in association with Auckland Arts Festival 2011 presents Ko Nakajima and Kentaro Taki new video installation. The installation will run from Tue 1 March till Fri 25 March 2011 at ST PAUL St Gallery.
Ko Nakajima, one of Japan’s most innovative and respected video artists, and his protégé Kentaro Taki, offer a fascinating view of the historical and contemporary faces of Japanese video art, highlighting its unique sensibilities and aesthetics.
Nakajima’s major new installation Electric Luminance Performance combines Taoist philosophy and the natural environment with new and obsolete video technology. Alongside this work he presents his ongoing project My Life 1976 - 2010. Taki’s work, representing a younger generation of Japanese video and performance art ( ) explores the impacts of mass communication and globalisation on contemporary life. He will present several works including Living in the Box and a new version of his acclaimed installation Bild:Muell.
Both artists also give unique live performances at ST PAUL St Gallery. In collaboration with local improvisers – musicians and dancers, Nakajima creates a live performance work responding to and activating Electric Luminance Performance. Informed by the idea of finding a path to an artwork through a process, rather than becoming attached to an outcome, Taki presents a live video-performance combining analogue and digital processes.
Curated by intermedia artist Phil Dadson in association with ST PAUL St Gallery, Video Life is both a meditative and provocative presentation of video technology’s impact on contemporary society.
Performance, ST PAUL St GallerySat 5 March, 7:30 – 9pm
Workshop: 4 – 6 March, see ST PAUL St for details and application forms
Artist Talk, Lecture Theatre WE230: Tues, 8 March, 5.30pm AUT
Where
ST PAUL St Gallery
Website
www.stpaulst.aut.ac.nz
When
Tue 1 March – Fri 25 March
Opening
Mon 28 Feb, 5.30pm
Hours
Tue - Fri, 10am - 5pm
Sat, 12 - 4pm
Video Life has received support from:
Japan Foundation,
Asia:NZ Foundation,
Creative New Zealand and
Epson