Join us in this screening with curator Suzanne Delehanty who organized Video Art, the international video art survey exhibition in 1975 at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Co-curators of the screening program, Ann Adachi-Tasch, Nina Horisaki-Christens, and Julian Ross will be present.
The Video Art exhibition was an international survey of the then nascent video art medium that took place at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in 1975. Through its four-city tour, this exhibition was the first time for US audiences to see an international survey of video, including the work of groundbreaking Japanese practitioners. However, it also became the basis for the US presentation at the 1975 Bienal de São Paulo and many of the American artists in the show became the key art historical references for the medium in the decades that followed. This screening takes a new perspective on this key early video art exhibition through a selection of works by Japanese pioneers of the medium and American artists who later engaged in dialogue with Japanese artists and cultural forms. The exhibition curator Suzanne Delehanty will be at the screening in person to discuss how Japanese artists were researched and included in the exhibition. The program is organized by Ann Adachi-Tasch, Nina Horisaki-Christens, and Julian Ross.
This program is co-presented by Collaborative Cataloging Japan and the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia in partnership with Lightbox Film Center at the University of the Arts. Major support for the Community of Images exhibition has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Toshiba International Foundation, Pola Art Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
