ARCHIVE no.81
Videotape Garden
IMAI Norio
2/14 wedー3/02 sat
dm TALK EVENT
“ The age of video”
＊Finished
Date：2/17 sat PM 5～6
Speaker：Hayashi yuki
(Video Creator)
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Entrance fee：500yen
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The conversion of recording media from analog to digital has been rapid over the past 30 to 40 years. Videotape, like cassette tape, is a type of magnetic tape and was a common means of recording images from about 1980 to 2000.
In this exhibition, videotapes from this period are used as materials for the installation. The floor of the gallery is covered with a large number of recorded videotapes, and the viewer stands on a transparent board laid on top of the videotapes to experience the works. What kind of images will we be able to conjure up from the videotapes of yesteryear?
During the exhibition, we are planning to welcome filmmaker Yuuki Hayashi for a discussion titled "The Age of Video. The transformation of the recording medium will gradually change our daily lives and have a great impact on the works themselves. We are now standing on the scene.
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Norio IMAI
Daily Portraits@IMAI Norio
I have recently begun using videotape again, as an extension of my recent work in which I have treated recording media as material, such as breaking and stacking SP records of yesteryear and winding open-reel recording tapes taken from the reels into spherical shapes.
The reason I wrote "again" is because around 1980, when video was at its height and DVDs and social networking services were not yet available, I used to pull out a videotape at the same time I was shooting and recording, and perform a performance in which the videotape was tied to the subject.However, even the same tape is perceived as a material very differently today than it has been over time.
Now, I am attempting to create an installation using a large number of videocassettes that have been torn apart and released from their reels.These tapes, many of which are no longer playable, are air-checked recordings of movies that were broadcast on television when he was a young man.They are no longer needed, but they contain many popular films that many people would have seen and spent time with.
(Norio IMAI)
IMAI Norio
Born in Osaka in 1946. Studied under Jiro Yoshihara while a student at Osaka Municipal Kogei High School, and joined the Gutai Art Association. Since then, he has participated in numerous exhibitions in Japan and abroad.
His main publications include "It Begins with White" (Brain Center), "Time Collection" and "Margins and Frames" (both published by Suiseisha), as well as a collection of works entitled "NORIO IMAI" (Axel and May Vervoordt Foundation).
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