Conversation Styles: Dumb Talk, Balance
Teiji Furuhashi
Japanese, 1960–1995
1984
A 1984 color-and-sound video by Teiji Furuhashi that stages a lone performer moving among scattered chairs to investigate modes of conversation, silence, and physical balance.
The frame is mostly dark, with a grainy bluish pool of light revealing a solitary figure clutching a tall pole and empty chairs whose shadows turn the sparse stage into an eerie, sculptural landscape.
It exemplifies 1980s experimental video and performance art, using video’s shadowy immediacy to blur theater and recorded media while probing how bodies and speech structure interpersonal exchange.
Medium
Video (color, sound)
Dimensions
3:25 min.
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchase
Accession
503.1986
Palette
Art Terms
Exhibitions
