Oura Takeshi's Enkin o kakaete

[Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow]

KineJapanners in Kanto:

I had wanted to post this before, especially since I'm involved in it, 
but since I'm moving this weekend, I never got around to it:

Gallery Maki in Kayabacho will be holding special screenings and 
discussions of Oura Nobuyuki's video work, _Enkin o kakaete_, and the 
controversial prints on which it is based.  Oura's prints feature images 
of the Showa emperor which, when purchased by the Toyama Prefectural 
Museum of Modern Art in the mid-1980s, sparked a small uproar among local 
politicians and the ultraright which prompted the Museum to promise never 
to publically show them.  In the end, they quietly sold them and did the 
outrageous thing of burning all the remaining copies of their catalogs 
which include pictures of Oura's prints.  The whole thing caused a big 
uproar.

_Enkin o kakaete_ is the title of that print series and the video work 
Oura made in 1994 based on those prints, using the occasion to discuss 
the relationship of the modern Japanese self to the emperor system.

The work and some of the prints will be shown at the following times and 
feature talks by the people listed:

Friday, the 19th:  7pm (Aaron Gerow)--sorry, too late!
Saturday, the 20th: 4pm (Imafuku Ryuta)
Sunday, the 21st: 4pm (Ukai Tetsu)
Monday, the 22nd: 7pm (Sawano Masaki)
Tuesday, the 23rd: 4pm (Tochigi Akira, Nishimura Tomohiro, Migaki Eigo, 
Oura Nobuyuki)

Cost: 1000 yen
Place: Galley Maki
1-31-8-402 Arakawa, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 
7 minutes from Kayaba-cho Station
Phone: 03-3297-0717

A lengthy catalog has been put together by the organizer, Shono Takeshi.

Note this will all be in Japanese.


Aaron Gerow