Marcel Duchamp and John Cage
Shigeko Kubota
Japanese, 1937–2015
1972
A 1972 single-channel video by Shigeko Kubota that stages an encounter between two prominent avant-garde figures, using monochrome imagery and recorded sound to probe performance, chance operations, and the overlap of visual art and music.
A grainy black-and-white frame centers two concentrated profiles across a small table strewn with a chess set and a tangle of wires, the intimate close-up turning a casual meeting into a tense, mechanical tableau.
An important early work of video art that documents and reimagines Fluxus-era performances, showing how inexpensive recording technology could extend conceptual practices and blur the lines between documentation, enactment, and sculpture.
Medium
Video (black and white and color, sound)
Dimensions
28:27 min.
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchase
Accession
2646.2001
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