Mitsunori Kurashige, Listening to Music, 1974 Music, Tape recorder, Cassette tape ©Mitsunori Kurashige Unidentified photographer
Mitsunori Kurashige, Listening to Music, 2020 Music, Tape recorder, Cassette tape ©Mitsunori Kurashige Photograph｜Toyoko Katsumata
August 11th Listening to Music Music, Tape recorder, Cassette tape
I record songs that document the life I lived in the past on cassette tapes. Then, I sit in front of the tapes and listen to the music. As I listen to the music, I reminisce the bygones and experience nostalgia, through which my consciousness attempts to move toward the past. I fight this feeling and block out the memories by becoming aware of the present. I just listen to the music recorded on the cassette tapes. I keep out the meanings that the music has previously had and simply listen to the music itself.
From Tomotaro Kaneko, “Odd epistemology: Mitsunori Kurashige’s seven performances in 1974”
Japanese Art Sound Archive collaboration: Mitsunori Kurashige, Seven Performances in 1974 (A Recreation), 2020
November 14th – December 25th Yokosuka Museum of Art “Mitsunori Kurashige + Junji Amano: Where Minimalism Leads”
Mitsunori Kurashige, Seven Performances in 1974 (A Recreation), 2020
Exhibition Space, Steel, Projector, DVD Player, DVD
Color, 110 minutes
Videographer, Editor｜Daika Matsukura
Collaborator｜Japanese Art Sound Archive (Tomotaro Kaneko)
Text
Tomotaro Kaneko, “Odd epistemology: Mitsunori Kurashige’s seven performances in 1974”
Exhibition Space, Steel, Projector, DVD Player, DVD
Color, 110 minutes
Videographer, Editor｜Daika Matsukura
Collaborator｜Japanese Art Sound Archive (Tomotaro Kaneko)
Text
Tomotaro Kaneko, “Odd epistemology: Mitsunori Kurashige’s seven performances in 1974”
Mitsunori Kurashige Biography
1946 Born in Fukuoka
1970 Left Nihon University College of Art, Department of Fine Arts
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1970 “A Game of Tacitly Creating Transparent Matter”, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo
1997 “Indefinite Square”, Köstring/Maier gallery, Munich
2000 “Blue Indefinite Square”, LA Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles
“Deep Blue Scenery”, Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa
2003 “Deep Blue Scenery”, LA Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles
“Mitsunori Kurashige”, Itami Museum of Art, Osaka
“Depth of Blue”, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Kanagawa
2012 ”Flickering Square”, Hebel_121, Bazel
2014 “Unfinished Map”, Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art, Okayama
Selected Group Exhibitions
1972 “Artists Today ’72”, Yokohama Citizens Gallery, Kanagawa
1980 ”Blank Space”, Association Katia-Pissarro, Paris
1981 “The 2nd Hara Annual”, Hara Museum, Tokyo
1985 “The Prospect of Contemporary Art: Transforming Imagination”, Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka
1992 “Kanagawa Art Annual ’92”, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Kanagawa
1994 “Cross and Squar: Grids”, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Saitama
1996 “YumeOoka Art Project”, Kanagawa
2003 “Kyushu-Power: Kyushu as the Worldwide Art”, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto
2004 “Hand in Hand / Contrasts”, KUBUS Hannover Städtische Galerie, Hannover
2005 “The Art of Breathing in the World: Art and Respiration”, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Chiba
2016 “Setouchi Triennale 2016 (Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music Setouchi Art Project Teem)”, Kagawa
2019 “Spiral: Oita Art Festival 2019″, Oita
Public Collections
Gallery Cocon, Tokyo Oita Prefectural Art Museum, Oita Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art, Chiba YumeOoka Art Project, Kanagawa Megi House (Produced by Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music), Kagawa Conrad Tokyo, Tokyo Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto Audi Museum, Ingolstadt
Gallery Cocon, Tokyo Oita Prefectural Art Museum, Oita Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art, Chiba YumeOoka Art Project, Kanagawa Megi House (Produced by Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music), Kagawa Conrad Tokyo, Tokyo Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto Audi Museum, Ingolstadt
Japanese Art Sound Archive 