{"id":7248,"date":"2017-02-03T02:30:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T08:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=7248"},"modified":"2025-01-09T18:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T00:51:30","slug":"february-9-rikuro-miyais-expanded-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2017\/02\/03\/february-9-rikuro-miyais-expanded-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"February 9 – Rikur\u014d Miyai\u2019s Expanded Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rikur\u014d Miyai, still from Phenomenology of Zeitgeist, 1967. Image courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room
\nModern Wing Entrance, 158 East Monroe Street<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Free, registration required (see saic.edu\/cate for details<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

A central figure in Japan\u2019s 1960s underground, Rikur\u014d Miyai\u2019s expansive, pop-infused practice spans filmmaking,\u00a0art criticism, design, and television. In this rare US appearance, he presents two of his best-known works of\u00a0expanded cinema. In the double-projected Phenomenology of Zeitgeist<\/em> (1967), Miyai layers ghostlike footage\u00a0of unauthorized street performances in the Shinjuko district of Tokyo <\/a>with color filters and lights. In Shadow<\/em>\u00a0(1968), he projects two films of his own shadow walking outdoors side-by-side\u2014one positive, one negative\u2014each a reflection of the other. The Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist and media artist Tatsu Aoki (BFA 1983,\u00a0MFA 1985) joins Miyai for this special appearance, performing with his group Reduction Ensemble, featuring\u00a0cellist Jamie Kempkers, guitarist Ramy Atassi, percussionist KIOTO, and Edward Wilkerson on woodwind.<\/p>\n

Curated with Go Hirasawa and Julian Ross and presented in collaboration with the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago in conjunction with the exhibition <\/em>Provoke: Photography in Japan between Protest and Performance, 1960\u201375.<\/p>\n

1967\u20132017, Japan\/USA, 16mm, video, live performance and music, ca 60 min.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rikur\u014d Miyai<\/strong> is a filmmaker and critic. He studied film through the Association of Documentary Filmmakers while a student at Waseda University. Influenced by Andy Warhol and Japan\u2019s 1960s \u201cshadow debate,\u201d about the growing indistinguishability between object and its image, Miyai turned toward increasingly complicated expanded cinema and environmental works, playing an important role in the development of Japanese intermedia. In addition to his expanded cinema works, he worked as a model, served as a critic for the journals Eiz\u014d Geijutsu <\/em>and Kikan Firumu<\/em>, advised on television programs and magazines, designed discotheques and headed Unit Productions, an independent film company set up in his apartment in Shinjuku.<\/p>\n

Tatsu Aoki<\/strong><\/a> is a leading advocate for the Asian American community, a prolific composer and performer of traditional and experimental music forms, and a filmmaker and educator. He has produced more than 30 experimental films and is one of the most in-demand performers of bass, shamisen, and taiko, having contributed more than 90 recording projects and touring internationally during the last 25 years. In the early 1970s, Aoki was active in Tokyo\u2019s underground arts movement as a member of Gintenkai, an experimental ensemble that combined traditional music and new Western forms. In the same period, he began making small-gauge and experimental films. In 1977, Aoki left Tokyo to study experimental filmmaking at SAIC. In 2001, the Asian American Institute awarded Aoki the Milestone Award for his contribution to Chicago-area arts. In 2010, he received the Japan America Society of Chicago\u2019s Cultural Achievement Award as well as a 3Arts Artist Award. He received the \u201cLiving in our Culture\u201d award by the Japanese American Service Committee in 2014 and Jazz Heroes\u2019 Award by National Jazz Journalist Association in 2015. In 2016, his Miyumi Project ensemble was chosen as the official musical presenters for the unveiling of Yoko Ono\u2019s first permanent installation in North America, Sky Landing,<\/em> in Chicago\u2019s Jackson Park. The group also recorded the album Sky Landing,<\/em> produced by Yoko Ono. Aoki is Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation and Art History, Theory, and Criticism at SAIC and a visiting professor at Northwestern University. He is also the founder and artistic director of the Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival and president of San Francisco\u2013based Asian Improv Records (AIR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room Modern Wing Entrance, 158 East Monroe Street Free, registration required (see saic.edu\/cate for details) A central figure in Japan\u2019s 1960s underground, Rikur\u014d Miyai\u2019s expansive, pop-infused practice spans filmmaking,\u00a0art criticism, design, and television. In this rare US appearance, he presents two of his best-known works of\u00a0expanded […]<\/p>\n

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