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Seven Nights, Seven Lights

Feb. 21—Mar. 1, 2008

• Feb. 21—Mar. 1, 2008
• Closed Monday (Tuesday if Monday is a national holiday)
• Admission：Free

Ever since it opened in 1995, as the only museum in Japan specializing in photography and imagery, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Ebisu) has planned and presented a wide variety of exhibitions. The B.1 Gallery focuses on exhibitions of works introducing every aspect of imagery, from its history, to computer graphics, animation, games and even Otaku culture.
The forthcoming event represents a completely new venture for us, as we will be holding live performances in the museum for seven nights. You can look forward to seven exciting evenings, with fascinating guests presented with the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography’s usual flair.

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★Night 1★　February 21 (Thurs.).Doors open at 18:30. Commences at 19:00
‘The Replicating Wall’ (Film + Performance + Installation)
Guests: ADACHI Tomomi, ISHIDA Takashi.

A joint performance by the exceptionally talented artist, ADACHI, who is active in a variety of fields, including improvised music, musical instrument creation, installations and modern music performance and the video artist, ISHIDA, who transforms his organic line drawings into ‘moving pictures’ by progressing one frame at a time. The session by these two artists, who are receiving attention on an international level, will be based on the keyword ‘Wall’.

   

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★Night 2★ February 22 (Fri.). Doors open at 18:30. Commences at 19:00 ‘Advertising and/with Imagery’ (Lecture + Film) Guest: ODAGIRI Akira (Supreme Councilor and Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy and Mather, Japan) As a veteran of Japanese advertising film, from its early beginnings to the present day, Mr. ODAGIRI will provide numerous examples as he talks about work in this creative field, past, present and future.

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★Night 3★　February 23 (Sat.).Doors open at 17:30. Commences at 18:00
‘The Perception of Imagery’ (Film + Talk + Installation)
Guest: IIMURA Takahiko, TOYOSHIMA Yasuko, OOE Naoya

TOYOSHIMA will intervene in one of IIMURA’s most representative works!! Although using differing methods, these two artists have both made an analytical study ofthe sensory truth of ‘self’, and in this, their first session together, they will explore the sensory structure of imagery.
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★Night 4★　February 24 (Sun.). Doors open at 17:30. Commences at 18:00 ‘Flicker Night’ (Film + Talk) Guest: NISHIMURA Tomohiro The flickering between light and dark and the image that lies beyond it. Flicker refers to the rapid flashing of light or images and it is an effect that was commonly used in art to produce direct stimulus, however, it became taboo in 1997 after the Pokemon Panic. This evening’s session will present films ranging from some of the best-known flicker works to others that remain largely unknown. It will trace the history and background of this phenomenon from the experimental movies of the 1960s, providing a challenging and rare opportunity to witness works in this genre, but how long will you be able to remain watching?

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★Night 5★　February 28 (Thurs.). Doors open at 18:30. Commences at 19:00
'The Voice-over - Internal Images’ (Performance + Installation)
Guest: YAMAKAWA Fuyuki

The ‘Voice-over’ is a film installation that was first created in 1997, then revised and shown again in 2006. It features the voice of the artist’s father, a famous newscaster, and tries to recreate the images that appear in the mind. In addition to the long awaited Syabi version of this, he will also present his marvelous voice performance, which received great acclaim at the 2007 Venice Biennale.

 


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★Night 6★　February 29 (Fri.). Doors open at 18:30. Commences at 19:00
‘The Missing Image - To the End of Sound’ (Live Installation)
Guest: KANO Shiho, WATANABE Yurihito, ARIMA Sumihisa

An up-and-coming visual artist who makes the structure and poeticality of imagery visible through a restrained reductive style and two singers who specialize in vocal improvisation and real-time composition. Together, they will present a live installation in which sound and image struggle in a serene yet arousing fashion.

     


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★Night 7★　March 1 (Sat.). Doors open at 17:30. Commences at 18:00
‘The Sun Shining Diagonally into the Eye’(Film + Sound + Live Performance)
Guests: IKUNISHI Yasunori, Kakegawa, Yasunori (image/sound editors), YAMAMOTO Seiichi (guitar), TSUNODA Toshiya, Neo(sound provider)

IKUNISHI, who has planned and produced numerous powerful live events, will work with his partner Kakegawa to create some original images, while TSUNODA and Neo sample actual ‘sounds’ to combine with YAMAMOTO’s divine guitar. Images, sound and live performance confront and resonate to invite you into a polyphonic visual experience.