Still from Disappearing Music for Face
Mieko Shiomi
Japanese, born 1938
George Maciunas
American, born Lithuania. 1931–1978
c. 1965
A gelatin silver print showing a cropped, duplicated film still of a woman's mouth, made by Mieko Shiomi to turn a fleeting cinematic fragment into a minimal score for perception and time.
You first notice the doubled, grainy close-ups of lips divided by a soft horizontal seam, while visible film sprocket holes and borders insist you read it as both image and object.
Linked to Fluxus experiments of the 1960s, it collapses film, photography, and musical ideas into a single work that exposes media's material traces and invites the viewer to "listen" with their eyes.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 6 1/2 x 8 1/8" (16.5 x 20.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift
Accession
2444.2008.11
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