Shigeko Kubota
Shigeko Kubota (久保田 成子 Kubota Shigeko) is a visual and performance artist[1] born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, in 1937.[2] She studied sculpture at the Tokyo University of Education, and completed her studies at New York University and at the New School for Social Research in the early 1960s. She became vice chairman of the Fluxus Organization in 1964, and was married to another member of that movement, Nam June Paik. A well-known and important early work is her Vagina Painting,[3] performed at the Perpetual Fluxus Festival in New York in July 1965.[4] In the performance, Kubota assumed a crouching position over a sheet of paper on the floor and painted on it with a brush affixed to the crotch of her underwear.[5] The work is often cited as a female rejoinder to Jackson Pollock's action or drip paintings.[6]
In 1972, Kubota produced Europe on 1/2 Inch a Day, the first of her video diaries.[7] In 1973, she began exploring image processing equipment at WNET's TV Lab and produced Video Girls and Video Songs for Navajo Skies.[8]
Kubota helped to coordinate the first annual Women's Video Festival at the Kitchen in 1972.[9]
Shigeko Kubota is quoted saying "I want to create a fusion of art and life, Asia and America, Duchampiana and Levi-Straussian savagism, cool form and hot video, dealing with all of those complex problems, spanning the tribal memory of the nomadic Asians who crossed over the Bering Strait over 10,000 years ago. Then, I came, flying in a Boeing 707, on July 4th in 1964, drawn to the glittering Pop Art world of New York."[10]
[edit] Exhibitions
- Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, United States 1979)
- Museum Folkwang (Essen, Germany 1982)
- American Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria, United States 1991)
- Galerie de Paris (Paris, France 1996)[10]
[edit] References
- ^ Ruhrberg, Karl; Honnef, Klaus; Fricke, Christiane; Manfred Schneckenburger, Ingo F. Walther (2000-12-01). Art of the 20th century. Taschen. pp. 596–. ISBN 9783822859070. http://books.google.com/books?id=069rL6vA1BAC&pg=PA596. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ Smith, Roberta (24 May 1991). "Review/Art; Sleek Video Sculptures By Shigeko Kubota". The New York Times: p. 26. http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/24/arts/review-art-sleek-video-sculptures-by-shigeko-kubota.html. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ Gewen, Barry (December 11, 2005). "State of the Art". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/college/coll11gewen.html?pagewanted=print. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ Lisa Gabrielle Mark, ed. (2007). Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. p. 255.
- ^ Lisa Gabrielle Mark, ed. (2007). Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 256.
- ^ Wark, Jayne (2006-08-14). Radical gestures: feminism and performance art in North America. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 46. ISBN 9780773530669. http://books.google.com/books?id=AyOe5KrW420C&pg=PA46. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ Stiles, Kristine; Selz, Peter Howard (1996). Theories and documents of contemporary art: a sourcebook of artists' writings. University of California Press. pp. 443–. ISBN 9780520202511. http://books.google.com/books?id=XJFh9TT0Z9MC&pg=PA443. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ Mitchell, Rose; Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson (2001). Tall woman: The life story of Rose Mitchell, a Navajo woman, c. 1874-1977. UNM Press. pp. 483–. ISBN 9780826322036. http://books.google.com/books?id=6rSDU8l7nc8C&pg=PA483. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ Arthur M. Sackler (1980-01-01). American film. American Film Institute. pp. 24–28. http://books.google.com/books?id=JPI8AAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ a b Hallmark, Kara Kelley (2007). Encyclopedia of Asian American artists. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 100–. ISBN 9780313334511. http://books.google.com/books?id=932dMZiWUfgC&pg=PA100. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
