Kayoko Ueda and Erize Watanabe, Weaving Time, 1973/2022 Performance｜Chiho Oka / Aoi Tagami
Kayoko Ueda and Erize Watanabe, Weaving Time, 1973/2022 Performance｜Ayako Ishiba / Mayuka Kawakami
Kayoko Ueda and Erize Watanabe sat at a table facing each other and put on blindfolds. Each took a sheet of drawing paper from a pile placed on the table, and after slowly writing “1” on them, dropped them at their feet. They both listened to the sounds the other produced, trying to match as much as possible the timing of their actions, and took another piece of paper on which they both wrote “2”, dropping them afterwards. The floor, as well as the chairs and the table were all covered with vinyl sheets. Their attempts to act simultaneously went on until 60 sheets of paper prepared for each were finally all scattered over the floor. Weaving Time, as the performance was titled, was the last work in the Tautology series presented by Ueda and Watanabe in 1973. The women repeated the above set of attempts several times during the duration of the exhibition.
From Tomotaro Kaneko, “Repetition and absence: Kayoko Ueda and Erize Hori, Tautology“
Exhibition
Kayoko Ueda and Erize Watanabe, Ariadne’s Thread, 1973/2022 (Reproduced by Erize Hori)
Kayoko Ueda and Erize Watanabe, In Void, 1973/2022 (Reproduced by Erize Hori)
Erize Hori, You Are Always Stronger Than Me You Are Always Weaker Than Me, 2022
Material Exhibition
Kayoko Ueda and Erize Watanabe, Tautology, 1973
Performance
Kayoko Ueda and Erize Watanabe, Weaving Time, 1973/2022 Performers｜Chiho Oka / Aoi Tagami (June 24th) / Ayako Ishiba / Mayuka Kawakami (June 25th)
Text｜Erize Hori / Tomotaro Kaneko
Sound Recording｜Yoshiki Masuda
Photography｜Ryo Fujishima
Video｜Yuki Higuchi
English Translation｜Masamichi Tamura
English Proofreading｜Aquiles Hadjis
Leaflet Design｜Tadao Kawamura
Installation Support｜Ryo Matsuoka / Toru Umehara
Leaflet
Erize Hori, “Tautology”, 2022
Tomotaro Kaneko. “Repetition and absence: Kayoko Ueda and Erize Hori, Tautology“, 2022 Kayoko Ueda (1948-2011) Biography
1948 Born in Tokyo
1971 Graduated from Tama Art University, Department of Painting
1971 Studied at Jiro Takamatsu’s “Juku”
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1973 Tautology series with Erize Watanabe
1974 Nirenoki Gallery, Tokyo
1975 Maki Gallery, Tokyo
1976 Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo
1977 Ai Gallery, Tokyo
1978 Ai Gallery, Tokyo
1979 Ai Gallery, Tokyo
1981 Komai Gallety, Tokyo
Tamura Gallery, Tokyo
1982 Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
1983 Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1984 Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1985 Gallery Iteza, Kyoto
1986 Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1987 Gallery Center Point, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
1973 “Kyoto Independent” with Erize Watanabe, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
1975 “Kyoto Independent”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
1976 “Space Today”, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa
1986 “The First Saikawa Art Festival”, Nagano
“Art Space ‘86”, Shizuoka City Culture Hall, Shizuoka
Selected Publications
1990-1992 “Children’s Paintings” Series, in Izu Shinbun
1996 Me Me Me, Te Te Te, Bakushusha
2014 Kayoko Ueda, Takashi Ogura, “Conversation between Children and Teachers in the Atelier: From the Diary of Kayoko Ueda’s Arts and Crafts Class”, in Child Study, no.985, Kaneko Shobo
Erize Hori (Erize Watanabe) Biography
1948 Born in Gunma
1970 Left Tama Art University, Department of Painting
1970 Studied at B-semi
1971 Studied at Jiro Takamatsu’s “Juku”
1975-77 Worked as a collaborator and performer of the performance of Kosai Hori
1998- Worked as “Unit 00” with Kosai Hori and Minoru Hatanaka
2011- Worked as “Kosai Hori + Erize Hori” with Kosai Hori
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1973 Tautology series with Kayoko Ueda
1974 Nirenoki Gallery, Tokyo
2019 As “Kosai Hori + Erize Hori”, Maruki Gallery, Saitama
2021 As “Kosai Hori + Erize Hori”, √K Contemporary, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
1973 “Kyoto Independent” with Erize Watanabe, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
1977 “10e Biennale de Paris” with Kosai Hori, Paris
1998- As “Unit 00”, “Attitude 2002” (Kumamoto Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002), “The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale” (2003, 2006), Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, and Tama Art University Museum etc.
2011- As “Hori Kosai + Erize Hori”, “Aizu Urushi Art Festival” (2012), and “Busan Biennale” (2016) etc.
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