Events
Community of Images programs offer a wide range of access and experiences, from online screenings available to international audiences, to local (Philadelphia) gatherings geared towards artists, students, scholars, and anyone between!
From March-May 2024, as part of our Community of Images series and in collaboration with Hitoshi Kubo and Keio University Art Center, we are thrilled to present a three-month feature on the early Japanese video collective, the Video Information Center (VIC). The extensive program is a comprehensive introduction to the group’s tireless documentation of underground arts and culture in Japan’s 1970s and 1980s.
In partnership with Twelve Gates Arts. and part of the Community of Images exhibition, the screening and artist talk The Curfew Lookbook with Shehrezad Maher will be presented on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, from 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM at Twelve Gates Arts, 106 N 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA.
Please join in this special panel discussion co-organized by the Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation and Collaborative Cataloging Japan, with speakers Barbara London, Suzanne Delahanty, Rebecca Cleman, and Nina Horisaki-Christens. The discussion will revolve around the Video Art Talk Shows, a program series organized by Shigeko Kubota at the Anthology Film Archives in the mid-1970s. In the Community of Images exhibition, documentation of two events were digitized and will be presented.
Join us in this screening with curator Suzanne Delehanty who organized Video Art, the international video art survey exhibition in 1975 at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Co-curators of the screening program, Ann Adachi-Tasch, Nina Horisaki-Christens, and Julian Ross will be present.
As part of the opening events for the Community of Images exhibition, JASGP and CCJ are hosting a one-day symposium at University of Pennsylvania that is being co-presented by the Center for East Asian Studies and the Asian American Studies Program. In addition to presenting original research from the curatorial team that shaped the exhibition, this symposium will feature a roundtable panel related to Asian American independent film and media arts movements that developed during the same time period among Asian diasporic communities in the US. Exploring these contemporaneous Asian American filmmakers and video artists, the objective is not to link them or their works directly to the Japanese artists, but rather discuss in parallel as contemporaries who emerged from the same generation and were simultaneously navigating questions of race and self-identity through the context of media.
Confirmed presenters include:
Ann Adachi-Tasch (Collaborative Cataloguing Japan)
Rob Buscher (University of Pennsylvania)
Peter X. Feng (University of Delaware)
Go Hirasawa (Meiji-Gakuin University)
Nina Horisaki-Christens (Columbia University)
Julian Ross (Leiden University)
Bring the family to a fun low tech video art-making session! Inspired by the works from the exhibition, we will be making immersive light installations and crowdsourced animation. All you need to bring is your imagination and your smartphone. Be prepared to collaborate, draw, build, and play. Artists Aki Torii and Tad Sare will lead this workshop.
ご家族でこの夏楽しいローテク映像アート作成セッションに参加してみませんか?展覧会の作品からインスピレーションを得て、臨場感あふれる光のインスタレーションや、クラウドソースのアニメーションを制作します。持ち物は、あなたの想像力とスマートフォンだけです。コラボレーションしたり、絵を描いたり、組み立てたりして楽しみましょう!
Are you seeking a unique and enriching experience for your child this summer? Look no further! PhillyCAM will host their Youth Media Workshop in connection to the Community of Images exhibition.
Youth participants will receive a guided tour of the exhibit, learning about early examples of the use of video technology and independent filmmaking for documentation of protests, communication, and alternative news reporting, followed by a hands-on workshop with PhillyCAM to create a short media piece as a creative response.
Join us in this discussion between artists Idalia Vasquez and Sinta Storms about their process of making art as migrants to the US, and how they define their expressive forms within the multiple racial identities they carry. In the conversation, we will explore how the term ‘diaspora’ functions when thinking about the locality of their practices.
EAI and Collaborative Cataloging Japan (CCJ) are thrilled to present a free in-person screening of a selection of video and film highlighting the exchange of avant-garde experimentation in New York and Japan during the 1960s and 70s, featuring Jud Yalkut, Masanori Ōe and Akiko Iimura.
From March-May 2024, as part of our Community of Images series and in collaboration with Hitoshi Kubo and Keio University Art Center, we are thrilled to present a three-month feature on the early Japanese video collective, the Video Information Center (VIC). The extensive program is a comprehensive introduction to the group’s tireless documentation of underground arts and culture in Japan’s 1970s and 1980s.
From March-May 2024, as part of our Community of Images series and in collaboration with Hitoshi Kubo and Keio University Art Center, we are thrilled to present a three-month feature on the early Japanese video collective, the Video Information Center (VIC). The extensive program is a comprehensive introduction to the group’s tireless documentation of underground arts and culture in Japan’s 1970s and 1980s.
This February, as part of our Community of Images series and our Meander program, we are thrilled to present a feature on the screening collective Ground Level Cinema (グラウンドレベルシネマ). The group is comprised of members from both Japan and Taiwan, and the program features contributions from Johan Chang & Masa Kudo, Hsin-Yu Chen and Kenta Yamaguchi.
This January we present the second program in our series on image-processing in Japan and North America: a focus on the life of Ko Nakajima’s two commercial animation computers, the Animaker and the Aniputer, and their subsequent life among video artists in Canada.
This December, we are proud to present the first in our series on image-processing on both sides of the Pacific: two works by Dan Sandin (and his collaborators), generously lent by the artist himself, alongside the 7-minute version of Nakajima's iconic Mt Fuji (1984).
From November 21 - December 5, we are delighted to present I have no memory of my direction (2005), a feature-length work from Japanese-Canadian filmmaker Midi Onodera, along with a series of shorts. At once narrative, essay film and experimental travelogue, this work explores the layered relationship of the artist to her grandmother’s birthplace of Japan.
This November, we present a fourth offering in our Community of Images series as part of our Meander program. In partnership with curator Elizabeth Jesse, we are thrilled to introduce the work of Kioto Aoki, an active Chicago-based artist, educator, and musician.
This October, we present our third program in the ongoing series, Community of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists in the US, 1960s-1970s - a selection of early works by the artist Keiji Uematsu, made during his period of residence in Düsseldorf, West Germany. The screening is accompanied by a partial translation of a 2016 interview with the artist conducted by the Japanese Oral Art History Archive.
This September, we present our second program in the ongoing series, Community of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists in the US, 1960s-1970s. This month’s screening features three more works from the CCJ Viewing Library: the productions of the members of Video Earth, a video collective begun in 1971 under the organization of Ko Nakajima.
For our August membership feature we are pleased to announce the first instalment of an ongoing season on CCJ: Community of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists in the US, 1960s-1970s. While our exhibition will focus on work created in the US or in collaboration with American artists and organisations, our August Members’ Viewing focuses on the thematics of “America” in the work of three artists, drawn from the CCJ Viewing Library.