by Chris MaGee
As many of you already know I try and inject a little of the experimental and artsy into the Pow-Wow blog from time to time, so when I came across Yuki Okumura, video artist and curator of the exhibition "Theory of Everything: Video Art from Tokyo" that toured from from Beijing to Dublin between February and 2006 to December of 2007 I knew I had to share both it and Okumura with you here and the fact that excerpts from "Theory of Everything" are now featured online makes that pretty damn easy.
Okumura, who hails from Aomori Prefecture studied painting at Tama Art University and then went overseas to study at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane. Currently based out of New York City where he is completeing a one year arts residency his work centers around small, often absurd moments, which he repeats them or takes out of context. As Okumura explains in the statement for "Theory of Everything" the "small events" captured by himself and the ten other Tokyo video artists in the show aim to "elicit how universal laws function in every detail of [the films] lives and to provide an opportunity to consider how amazing and mysterious this is."
Just as a sample check out these two videos below by Okumura and the artistic duo of Mai Yamashita and Naoto Kobayashi before heading over to "Theory of Everything to check out the rest of the online exhibition.
"Paths are made by walking" - Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi
As many of you already know I try and inject a little of the experimental and artsy into the Pow-Wow blog from time to time, so when I came across Yuki Okumura, video artist and curator of the exhibition "Theory of Everything: Video Art from Tokyo" that toured from from Beijing to Dublin between February and 2006 to December of 2007 I knew I had to share both it and Okumura with you here and the fact that excerpts from "Theory of Everything" are now featured online makes that pretty damn easy.
Okumura, who hails from Aomori Prefecture studied painting at Tama Art University and then went overseas to study at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane. Currently based out of New York City where he is completeing a one year arts residency his work centers around small, often absurd moments, which he repeats them or takes out of context. As Okumura explains in the statement for "Theory of Everything" the "small events" captured by himself and the ten other Tokyo video artists in the show aim to "elicit how universal laws function in every detail of [the films] lives and to provide an opportunity to consider how amazing and mysterious this is."
Just as a sample check out these two videos below by Okumura and the artistic duo of Mai Yamashita and Naoto Kobayashi before heading over to "Theory of Everything to check out the rest of the online exhibition.
"Paths are made by walking" - Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi
Looking For The Wind - Yuki Okamura
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