Masako Shibata, AFFECT-GREEN Performance, 1976 Amplifier, Open reel tape recorder, Cassette tape recorder, Speaker, Drum set, 8mm Camera, 8mm projector, Microphone ©Masako Shibata Unidentified photographer
Masako Shibata, AFFECT-GREEN Performance, 1976/2021 Video, Audio interface, Speaker, Percussions, Projector, Microphone, Lap top computer ©Masako Shibata Photograhy｜Ryo Fujishima
Masako Shibata, AFFECT-GREEN Performance, 1976/2021 Excerpt Video, Audio interface, Speaker, Percussions, Projector, Microphone, Lap top computer ©Masako Shibata Sound Recording｜Makoto Oshiro Video｜Okujoh（Iroha Goda / Mai Kobayashi / Yo Noguchi）
A) Voice words at random about what you see and feel while moving from a point to another and record them together with surrounding sounds (Tape A).
A’) With a movie camera, shoot A from behind, while maintaining a certain distance (Film A’). (At the time, I decided to move from Kamimeguro, where I lived, to Tokiwa Gallery in Kanda, about 50 minutes away.)
B) Play Tape A, have a trained vocalist spontaneously voice sounds, which they imagine while listening to it, and record both sounds (Tape B──Sounds of A and B overlap). (At the time, I asked a classical music vocalist.)[…]
C) Play Tape A, have a percussionist spontaneously beat sounds, which they imagine while listening to it, and record both sounds (Tape C──Sounds of A, B, and C overlap). (At the time, I asked a jazz drummer to beat drums.)
Set three pairs of speakers to play Tapes A, B, and C and a movie projector to project Film A’ on a wall in the inner gallery, in the front.
D) Play Tapes A, B, C, and Film A in sequence by shifting them every 10 minutes and record them on Tape D. (At the time, when I play each tape, I just stand in the center of a pair of speakers, trying to suggest the difference between the artist as the source and the sounds at the site.)
A’) With a movie camera, shoot A from behind, while maintaining a certain distance (Film A’). (At the time, I decided to move from Kamimeguro, where I lived, to Tokiwa Gallery in Kanda, about 50 minutes away.)
B) Play Tape A, have a trained vocalist spontaneously voice sounds, which they imagine while listening to it, and record both sounds (Tape B──Sounds of A and B overlap). (At the time, I asked a classical music vocalist.)[…]
C) Play Tape A, have a percussionist spontaneously beat sounds, which they imagine while listening to it, and record both sounds (Tape C──Sounds of A, B, and C overlap). (At the time, I asked a jazz drummer to beat drums.)
Set three pairs of speakers to play Tapes A, B, and C and a movie projector to project Film A’ on a wall in the inner gallery, in the front.
D) Play Tapes A, B, C, and Film A in sequence by shifting them every 10 minutes and record them on Tape D. (At the time, when I play each tape, I just stand in the center of a pair of speakers, trying to suggest the difference between the artist as the source and the sounds at the site.)
From Tomotaro Kaneko, “Listen to “affects”: Masako Shibata, AFFECT-GREEN Performance”
AFFECT-GREEN Performance Diagram (By Masako Shibata)
AFFECT-GREEN Performance Technical rider (By Chiho Oka)
Japanese Art Sound Archive: Masako Shibata, AFFECT-GREEN Performance, 1976
February 11th, 2021 BUoY
Performance
Masako Shibata, AFFECT-GREEN Performance, 1976/2021 Performers｜Toru Inoue / Aoi Tagami / Ryotaro Miyasaka
Text｜Masako Shibata / Tomotaro Kanrko
Technical Assistant｜Chiho Oka / Wataru Shoji
Sound Recording｜Makoto Oshiro
Photography｜Ryo Fujishima
Video｜Okujoh (Iroha Goda / Mai Kobayashi / Yo Noguchi)
Text
Masako Shibata, “Letter to Ken Watanabe,” 1991
Tomotaro Kaneko, “Listen to “affects”: Masako Shibata, AFFECT-GREEN Performance,” 2021
Masako Shibata, AFFECT-GREEN Performance, 1976/2021 Performers｜Toru Inoue / Aoi Tagami / Ryotaro Miyasaka
Text｜Masako Shibata / Tomotaro Kanrko
Technical Assistant｜Chiho Oka / Wataru Shoji
Sound Recording｜Makoto Oshiro
Photography｜Ryo Fujishima
Video｜Okujoh (Iroha Goda / Mai Kobayashi / Yo Noguchi)
Text
Masako Shibata, “Letter to Ken Watanabe,” 1991
Tomotaro Kaneko, “Listen to “affects”: Masako Shibata, AFFECT-GREEN Performance,” 2021
Masako Shibata Biography
1970 Graduated from Women’s College of Fine Arts, College of Art and Design
1986-87 Stayed in France under Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1971 Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
Kugenuma Coast, Kanagawa
1972 Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1973 Tamura Gallery, Tokyo (as Masako + Naoyoshi)
1974 Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo
1976 Tamura Gallery, Tokyo
Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo
Maki Gallery, Tokyo
1977 Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo
Galerie Farideh Cadot, Paris
1978 Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo
1979 Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo
1980 Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo
1981 Maki Gallery, Tokyo
Gallery Parergon, Tokyo
1985 Awajicho Gallery, Tokyo
1986 gelerie 16, Kyoto
1989 “Inquiring the Origin:1970s Art, No.4, Masako Shibata”, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1970 “A Game of Tacitly Creating Transparent Matter”, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
1972 “Komaba Anthology”, Kuni Chiya Buto Raboratory, Tokyo (as Masako + Naoyoshi)
“Image Expression ’72”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
1973 “Kyoto Independent”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
“AFFAIR & PRACTICE · BY 12”, Pinar Galleries, Tokyo (as Masako + Naoyoshi)
“Quintette + 4 REVOLUTION Photography Exhibition”, Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo (as Masako + Naoyoshi)
“Artists Today ’73”, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa (as Masako + Naoyoshi)
1975 “Five Artists Exhibition”, Miyama Gallery, Tokyo
1976 “Space Today”, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa
1977 “Kyoto Independent”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
“10e Biennale de Paris”, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
“The Richness of Painting”, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa
1978 “Future Direction of Kyoto Independent in its 20th year”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
2003 “The 7th Joshibi University of Art and Design Gunma OG exhibition”, Takasaki City Gallery, Gunma
2006 “The 8th Joshibi University of Art and Design Gunma OG exhibition”, Takasaki City Gallery, Gunma
2012 “The 10th Joshibi University of Art and Design Gunma OG exhibition”, Takasaki City Gallery, Gunma
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