High Line Art & EAI Present: SHIGEKO KUBOTA

ROCK VIDEO: CHERRY BLOSSOM

SCREENING ON HIGH LINE CHANNEL 22

Shigeko Kubota on the Highline

Spring comes to the High Line in the exuberant form of Shigeko Kubota's iconic video work, Rock Video: Cherry Blossom (1986). EAI is pleased to collaborate with High Line Art, a program of Friends of the High Line, to present Kubota's silent video on High Line Channel 22. This outdoor screening, projected on a building to the east of the High Line at West 22nd Street, will be visible from the park's Seating Steps as well as from the sidewalk below. Rock Video: Cherry Blossom will be on view daily from Thursday, March 13 through Monday, April 20, 2014 from 6:00 — 11:00 PM.


    March 13 - April 20th, 2014
DAILY SCREENINGS

6:00 PM - 11:00 PM


High Line Channel 22
Seating Steps on the High Line
at West 22nd Street


Pale pink cherry blossoms against a bright blue sky are the starting point for Shigeko Kubota's Rock Video: Cherry Blossom, as the artist uses vivid electronic processing techniques to manipulate and transform the delicate images. Achieving striking visual transmutations, Kubota layers, colorizes, and ultimately abstracts the blossoms, creating a dynamic convergence of the natural and the technological.

A prominent member of the international Fluxus art movement of the 1960s, Shigeko Kubota has created an extensive body of sculptures, multi-media installations, and videos over the past five decades. Focusing on several interconnected themes, Kubota's interdisciplinary work often pays direct homage to the influences of John Cage and Marcel Duchamp. Her works also reflect the Buddhist environment in which she was raised, and make reference to traditional Japanese motifs of nature and landscape. Kubota, who moved to New York from Tokyo in 1964 at the invitation of Fluxus founding member George Maciunas, has also chronicled her life on video as an ongoing diaristic project. Throughout her works in sculpture, installation and video, Kubota has forged a distinctive confluence of the organic and the technological, applying her signature electronic processing techniques to images and objects from nature, art history, and everyday life.

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Shigeko Kubota was born in 1937 in Niigata, Japan. She received a B.A. in sculpture from Tokyo University of Education, and studied at New York University and the New School for Social Research. In 1964, she moved to New York; in the same year she became the Vice Chairman of the Fluxus Organization. She has taught at the School of Visual Arts, and was video artist-in-residence at both Brown University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kubota is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Fellowship in Berlin, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, New York State Council on the Arts grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, and an NEA/Visual Arts grant.

Her work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Toyama Museum of Art, Japan. Kubota's video sculptures, installations and videos have been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Rene Block Gallery, New York; The Museum of Modern Art (Projects), New York; Documentas 6 and 8, Kassel, Germany; Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Kulturhuset, Stockholm; Japan Society, New York; The Kitchen, New York; New Langton Arts, San Francisco; Kongress Halle, Berlin; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She participated in the 1990 Venice Biennale and the 1990 Sydney Biennale. A retrospective of her work was presented at the American Museum of the Moving Image, New York in 1991. In 1996, she was the subject of a one person show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Kubota lives in New York.


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About High Line Art

Presented by Friends of the High Line, High Line Art commissions and produces public art projects on and around the High Line. Founded in 2009, High Line Art presents a wide array of artwork including site-specific commissions, exhibitions, performances, video programs, and a series of billboard interventions. Curated by Cecilia Alemani, the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Curator & Director of High Line Art, and produced by Friends of the High Line, High Line Art invites artists to think of creative ways to engage with the uniqueness of the architecture, history, and design of the High Line and to foster a productive dialogue with the surrounding neighborhood and urban landscape.

High Line Art is presented by Friends of the High Line and the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. High Line Art is made possible by Donald R. Mullen, Jr. and The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, with additional support from David Zwirner Gallery, and Vital Projects Fund, Inc. High Line Art is supported, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Media Contact: Ashley Tickle
High Line Art Communications Manager, Friends of the High Line.
ashley.tickle@thehighline.org
(212) 206-9922 x2101