Sol wrote:
>I didn't realise that Hi Red Center activities were taking place as early
>as 63.
> Can you recommend any references on Hi Red Center and Gutai.
Well, I deduced this since Nam June Paik was in Japan in '63 & '64, and
Yoko Ono was there from around '62-'64, so if they participated in Hi Red
Center events it probably was around '63. Also, I seem to recall that
Paik's Dragging Event was from '63, and it shows a striking similarity to
Hi Red Center street events.
There are some great Hi Red Center event scores at Ken Friedman's Fluxus
Performance Workbork site
http://www.nutscape.com/fluxus/homepage/hi_red_c.html
And there's lots of interesting information about Tokyo Fluxus and the
various independent Japanese art groups in Alexandra Munroe's book Japanese
Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky.
You might be interested in reading an essay Toshi Ichiyanagi wrote that
can be found on a site about 1960's Japanese art at
http://www.soum.co.jp/mito/1960/music-e.html, as well as some information
on Japanese conceptual art that's at
http://www.queensmuse.org/exhibitions/japan.html
Can anyone else recommend further reading?
-Sharon
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