View: Fujiko Nakaya's River
river-view without view angle /
waterall—integrated river
Fujiko Nakaya, River-View Without View Angle / 川：視角のない視覚｜1978, 3 monitors, 1 video player, 1 video tape; and
Fujiko Nakaya, Waterfall—Integrated River / 滝：写像された川｜1981, 8 monitors in four sizes, 1 video tape
River-View Without View Angle / 川：視角のない視覚｜1978, 3 monitors, 1 video player, 1 video tape
Waterfall—Integrated River / 滝：写像された川｜1981, 8 monitors in four sizes, 1 video tape
As part of the Interrogating Ecology: 1970s Media and Art in Japan project in 2021, scholar Nina Horisaki-Christens identified works by Fujiko Nakaya that are relevant to her research but had not been digitized. This tape is the source material for two works River-View Without View Angle (1978) and Waterfall—Integrated River (1981).
In 2021 CCJ was awarded a grant by the Japan Virtual Exchange Program grant of the Asian Cultural Council to support a research project that will encourage exchanges between artists, researchers, archivists, and the public across Japan and the U.S. through online conversations, research, and presentations about media and art of the 1970s Japan.