Mieko Shiomi
Mieko Shiomi ( Japanese 塩 見 允 枝子 , Shiomi Mieko ; * 1938 in Okayama , Okayama Prefecture ) is a Japanese Fluxus artist and composer .
life and work
Mieko Chieko Shiomi studied classical music from 1957 to 1961 at the Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku in Tokyo . She became increasingly interested in object and action art . In 1960 she was in contact with the Ongaku group , made the acquaintance of Takehisa Kosugi , Nam June Paik and in 1963 with Yoko Ono and Toshi Ichiyanagi . She met John Cage , La Monte Young and George Brecht , who had traveled to Tokyo. George Maciunas invited Mieko Shiomi to New York. She spent 1964 in New York City and took part in several Fluxus actions.
In 1965 Shiomi began with the series "Spatial Poems". The spatial distance between the Japanese artist and her Fluxus artist colleagues is the breeding ground for the idea. Shiomi sent 200 letters to artists in America, Central, and Eastern Europe, inviting them to participate in a series of nine events. One example is the “Falling Event” from 1966. Various Fluxus artists are invited to drop an object and document the action. The reports sent to Mieko Shiomi range from the dropping of a small red flower from the New York window by the artist Shigeko Kubota to the toddler that the Czech artist Ladislav Novák claims to have thrown from a hill, to a pike Vytautas Landsbergis in a frying pan dropped. "Spatial Poems" was continued until 1975. In 1976 the book "Spatial Poems" was published, in which all contributions are summarized and shown on world maps. These maps - and the “mappings” that Shiomi and Mačiūnas made for the first four events (“Word Event”, “Direction Event”, “Falling Event” and “Shadow Event”) are the actual work.
Shiomi lives and works in Osaka .
Group exhibitions (selection)
- 2014: Twentieth Anniversary Special MOT Collection Contacts Museum of Contemporary Art , Tokyo
- 2011: The Feeling of things / Le sentiment des choses Frac Île-de-France, le Plateau
- 2011: Thing / Thought: Fluxus Editions, 1962–1978 Museum of Modern Art , New York
- 2011: Thing / Thought: Fluxus Editions, 1962-1978 with Alison Knowles , Dóra Maurer , Anna Ostoya, Cory Arcangel and William Pope.L , MoMA PS1 , New York
- 2010: Fluxus East Henie-Onstad Art Center , Oslofjord
- 2010: Experimental Women in Flux Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 2008: Clio – A Short History of Art in Euramerica after 1945 Center for Art and Media Technology , Karlsruhe
Works on CD
- 2010: The World Of Sounds And Words
- 2005: Fractal Freaks
- 2002: Fluxus Suite
- 1998: An Incidental Story On The Day Of A Solar Eclipse # 1 # 2 # 3
- 1990: Requiem for George Maciunas
Individual evidence
- ↑ Armin Hundertmark Mieko Shiomi , accessed on March 4, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Culturebase, Petra Stegmann Mieko Shiomi The power of the unspectacular ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 4, 2015.
- ↑ George Macunias Foundation Inc. Case Study: Mieko Shiomi Interprets Fluxkit , accessed on March 4, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Artslant worldwide Mieko Shiomi , accessed on March 4, 2015 (English).
- ^ ZKM Karlsruhe Clio A Short History of Art in Euramerica after 1945 , accessed on March 4, 2015 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shiomi, Mieko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shiomi, Mieko Chieko; 塩 見 允 枝子 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese fluxus artist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Okayama , Okayama Prefecture |