Is this Gutai?

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Video ID number: V00520
Recording date: 28 May 2021

Overview

Taiwanese artist River Lin presents "Is this Gutai?", an online performance and lecture about Gutai - a pioneering artist collective and art movement active in Japan during the post-war period - featuring works by Atsuko Tanaka, Kazuo Shiraga, Saburo Murakami and Shozo Shimamoto. It includes video documentation of "Dancing with Gutai Art Manifesto 1956" presented by C-Lab (Contemporary Culture Lab Taiwan) in 2020 as well as a conversation between Lin and TRU’s artistic director Takao Kawaguchi.

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Details

Title: Is this Gutai?
Performance creator(s): NPO Dance Archive Network
Direction/Choreography: Concept: River Lin
Performance date(s): 28 May 2021 - 15 August 2021 (online viewing)
Performer(s) and staff: Performance: River Lin, Eric Tsai, Chien Shih-Han, Chang Yun-Chen
Moderator: Takao Kawaguchi
Co-producer: Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab
Publicity Design: Young Soul
Organiser(s): Organisers: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
Planning and Production: NPO Dance Archive Network
Genre: Performance