FWD: Video Cafe: L'empire des Significants by Tokyo Video Art Center

Miles Wood diabolik
Mon Jan 14 23:19:28 EST 2002


Thought this might be of some interest to some list members...

Video Cafe January 2002:
Works from Tokyo Video Art Center: "L'empire des Signifiants"

Thursday, 17 January 2002
7:30-8:30pm
Videotage
No.13, Block PB567, Cattle Depot Artist Village,
63, Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon,
Hong Kong

Tokyo is the city of spectacle. "Jeus des signifiants (plays of
signifiants)" meets high technology and
Mikado-Emperor system, and they are creating a perfect numbness toward a
new totalitarianism.

Videotage is pleased to present video works from the newly formed video
art collective Tokyo Video Art Center.
 The programme "L'empire des Significants" features 6 videos which
mostly revolve around mediated societies.
These artists of "spectacle age" use video to break aesthetic limits of
expression about mass media and structural
reality, philosophy and politics. Tokyo Video Art Center's work is not
related to the more familiar language of
"Japanese contemporary" style, like Manga comics, Yakuza films, or
recovery of self-identity.  Rather, their work
takes on a more critical position of the medium of video, to give an
inerasable trace of anti-spectacle inside the
spectacle.

The total length of the "L'empire des Significants" is just under 60
minutes.

1: video composition #2 "Stolen Air," by TAKI Kentaro (5min)
2: "media cage," by TAKI Kentaro (7min)
3: "Omedetou," by NAKAMURA Akiko (5min)
4: Study on Media "education before education," by HATTORI Katsuyuki
(8:43min)
5: "President," by KANEMAKI Kazumi (11min)
6: "a not = a or For Devatas Who Keep on Dancing," by KAWAI
Masayuki (15:30min)

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Videotage
Unit 13, Block PB 567, Cattle Depot Artist Village
63 Ma Tau Kok Road
To Kwa Wan, Kowloon
Hong Kong
Tel: 852-2573.1869
Fax: 852-2503.5978
URL: http://www.videotage.org.hk







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