Shigeko Kubota

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Shigeko Kubota ( Japanese 久保 田 成 子 , Kubota Shigeko ; born August 2, 1937 in Niigata Prefecture , Japan ; † July 23, 2015 in Manhattan , New York ) was a Japanese-American video artist .

Life

Kubota graduated from Tokyo University of Education with a bachelor's degree in sculpture . In 1964 she went to New York, where she continued her studies at New York University and the New School for Social Research . She made multimedia installations and videos her form of expression. In the 1960s she was influenced by art, music and the theories of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage . In 1964 she became vice president of the Fluxus movement . The female members of Fluxus include Yoko Ono and Mieko Shiomi .

In 1965 she showed the performance vagina painting at the Perpetual Fluxus Festival in New York , in which she spread red paint with a brush attached to her underpants. The Vagina Painting is a female answer to drip painting and action painting understood its main representatives Jackson Pollock was (1912-1956). Other artists who have experimented with expressive use of color are Carolee Schneemann , Helena Almeida , Niki de Saint Phalle and Lynda Benglis .

Until the 1970s, Shigeko Kubota called all of her videos Broken diary . She traveled extensively to Europe, Korea, Japan and the southwest of the USA. In 1977 she married the musician and visual artist Nam June Paik (1932–2006).

Kubota taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Shigeko Kubota. Video sculptures . Paris: Duchampiana, Galerie de Paris, 1996 (catalog)
  • Mary Jane Jacob, ed. Shigeko Kubota: Video Sculpture . Astoria, New York: American Museum of the Moving Image, 1991 (catalog)
  • Felix Zdenck, ed. Shigeko Kubota: Video Sculpture . Essen, Germany: Museum Folkwang Essen / BAAD / Kunsthaus Zurich, 1981

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shigeko Kubota, a Creator of Video Sculptures, Dies at 77
  2. ↑ 久保 田 成 子 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved April 1, 2013 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ Electronic Arts Intermix Shigeko Kubota ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 30, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eai.org
  4. ^ Museum of Modern Art: Experimental Women in Flux.Retrieved March 30, 2013
  5. ↑ Vagina Painting. Accessed March 30, 2013
  6. ↑ Jane Wark: Radical Gestures: Vagina Painting.Retrieved March 30, 2013
  7. ↑ Shigeko Kubota, Vagina Painting perform feminism ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2013 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. Retrieved March 30, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bodytracks.org
  8. ↑ Stendhal Gallery 2007 My Life with Nam June Paik.Retrieved March 30, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Kubota, Shigeko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 久保 田成子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese-American video artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Niigata Prefecture , Japan
DATE OF DEATH 23rd July 2015
Place of death Manhattan , New York City