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A few more images from 'Liquid Reality' MoMA's new exhibition catalog on the pioneering video sculpture of Shigeko Kubota. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ “I am a sculptor, I want to make video, but I also wanted to make objects,” Kubota said in 1983. “So the video part is my mirror for my memory, of my life, but the object is creating my creation.” For those who associate video art and sculpture more readily with Kubota’s husband and sometime collaborator Nam June Paik, this book will be absolutely essential to understanding her importance to the history of Fluxus and video sculpture. “In the beginning Paik only used the television set, just like that, bare, without anything,” she is quoted. “Then I told him that a television by itself is not a work. It could be found in any store, he needed to add something. He didn’t listen to me, so I decided to do it myself, in the late Sixties. Video Sculptures with all kinds of materials, with super 8 and moving images from films.”⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Edited with text by Erica Papernik-Shimizu. Text by Gloria Sutton.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ @themuseumofmodernart #shigekokubata @e.p.shimizu #videosculpture #liquidreality https://www.instagram.com/p/CUU05J_ARBw/?utm_medium=tumblr

Details from 'Shigeko Kubota: Liquid Reality,' our Women's History Month book of the day, published to accompany the landmark exhibition last year @themuseumofmodernart⁠ ⁠ “I am a sculptor, I want to make video, but I also wanted to make objects,” Kubota said in 1983. “So the video part is my mirror for my memory, of my life, but the object is creating my creation.” ⁠ ⁠ For those who associate video art and sculpture more readily with Kubota’s husband and sometime collaborator Nam June Paik, this book will be absolutely essential to understanding her importance to the history of Fluxus and video sculpture. “In the beginning Paik only used the television set, just like that, bare, without anything,” she is quoted. “Then I told him that a television by itself is not a work. It could be found in any store, he needed to add something. He didn’t listen to me, so I decided to do it myself, in the late Sixties. Video Sculptures with all kinds of materials, with super 8 and moving images from films.” ⁠ ⁠ The book is edited with text by Erica Papernik-Shimizu. Text by Gloria Sutton.⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #shigekokubota #fluxus #videoart #liquidreality #videosculpture #namjunepaik #womenshistory #womenshistorymonth @e.p.shimizu⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CaxHo_VuISE/?utm_medium=tumblr

"Where does video live? On the screen, or a tape, a memory chip, the hard organs of your phone? Perhaps its home is now the cloud, or a warehouse of supercooled servers humming in the Arizona desert. In the work of pioneering video artist Shigeko Kubota, the search for such an objective home seems fruitless. Her filmic sculptures seem to suggest that video lives in the moment of transmission. In the @themuseumofmodernart retrospective exhibition 'Liquid Reality,' her experiments with the malleability of the moving image are given concrete form.…"⁠ ⁠ Read @justindotcomp on 'Shigeko Kubota: Liquid Reality' @hyperallergic via linkinbio and please order the book from your favorite independent bookstore!⁠ ⁠ More info on artbook.com.⁠ ⁠ #shigekokubota #liquidreality #videosculpture #videoart https://www.instagram.com/p/CWJCIwwJeLo/?utm_medium=tumblr

A selection of images from 'Shigeko Kubota: Liquid Reality,' published to accompany the exhibition currently on view @themuseumofmodernart⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ 'Liquid Reality' sheds new light on the multilayered practice of Shigeko Kubota, who broke new ground with her intrepid video sculptures combining “the energy of electrons” with raw materials like plywood, sheet metal, mirrors and the natural element of water. At the forefront of a generation of artists drawn to the nascent medium of video for its freedom from precedent, Kubota likened newly available portable video technology to a “new paintbrush.” She employed early image-processing tools to create otherworldly portraits and landscapes that explored journeys both personal and artistic.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Essays by curator Erica Papernik-Shimizu and scholar Gloria Sutton provide an in-depth look at a selection of Kubota’s key video sculptures from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s, which pivoted from her 'Duchampiana' series to a foregrounding of nature as a means of examining her medium, the world, and her place in it. This richly illustrated publication further contextualizes the artist’s work through her writings and drawings, as well as archival ephemera. Viewed through the lens of today’s digitally interconnected world, Kubota’s revelatory sculptures continue to astonish through their economy of means and poetic juxtaposition of the organic and the electronic.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Shigeko Kubota (1937–2015) was a key protagonist in the Fluxus movement before her four-decade career as a video artist began in the early 1970s. She became a pioneer in the medium of video sculpture, working collaboratively to encase video monitors in volumetric forms. In doing so, she liberated video from the constraints of the “TV box” and explored nature as a metaphor for video technology. In parallel, she served as Video Curator at @anthologyfilmarchives between 1974 and 1983, and facilitated a critical exchange between video artists in New York and Tokyo.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #shigekokubata @e.p.shimizu #videosculpture #liquidreality https://www.instagram.com/p/CUSiDhXFdTy/?utm_medium=tumblr

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