Famed Japanese Photographer Discusses 60-year Career and Two-Day NYC Performance in November

An Evening with Daido Moriyama

 

Thursday, November 3, 2011, 6:30 pm, at Japan Society

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New York, NY – Visiting New York City to recreate his 1974 performance PRINTING SHOW at the Aperture Foundation, famed Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama appears at Japan Society to discuss his recent photography and early projects, such as the series 71 New York as well as PRINTING SHOW. Moderated by International Center of Photographycurator Christopher Phillips, An Evening with Daido Moriyama takes place Thursday, November 3, 6:30 pm, at Japan Society, and is followed by a reception. The discussion is presented in conjunction with PRINTING SHOW—TKY, part of the Performa 2011 new visual art performance biennial November 1-21.

 

PRINTING SHOW—TKY (held at the Aperture Gallery November 4th & 5th) is a re-staging of Moriyama's legendary performance PRINTING SHOW, originally held in 1974 in a Tokyo gallery space. In lieu of mounting photographic prints on the walls, Moriyama brought in a photocopy machine and silk screen printing station, from which he generated an ad hoc photobook composed of photocopied sheets staple-bound with a silk screen cover. The book, Another Country in New York, used drew from photographs he shot in New York City during the winter of 1971. In the 2011 re-staging, Moriyama will produce a photobook titled TKY, featuring work shot in Tokyo over the last ten years. Attendees to the event will edit and sequence their own copies of TKY, choosing from a menu of 54 double-sided sheets and two cover options. PRINTING SHOW—TKY is organized by Ivan Vartanian of Goliga.

 

MORIYAMA Daido has been publishing and exhibiting his photography since the late 1960s. A major retrospective, Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog, originated in 1999 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and subsequently toured internationally to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Japan Society in New York, Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland and numerous other venues. He is a recipient of The Cultural Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie.  Current and forthcoming exhibitions include a major retrospective, On the Road, presented at the Osaka National Museum of Art from June to October 2011, and William Klein/Daido Moriyama at Tate Modern from October 2012 to January 2013.

 

Christopher Phillips has been the curator at the International Center of Photography in New York City since 2000. In 2004, he and Wu Hung of the University of Chicago organized the first major U.S. exhibition of Chinese contemporary photography, Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China. In recent years he has curated exhibitions including Atta Kim: On-Air (2006), Shanghai Kaleidoscope (2008), Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan (2008), H20: Art on the Horizon of Nature (2010), and Wang Qingsong: When Worlds Collide (2011). He has served as a member of the curatorial team that organized the 2003, 2006, and 2009 editions of the ICP Triennial of Contemporary Photography and Video. As an adjunct faculty member at New York University and Barnard College, he teaches classes in the history and criticism of photography.

 

Founded in 1907, Japan Society is a world-class, multidisciplinary hub for global leaders, artists, scholars, educators, and English and Japanese-speaking audiences. At the Society, more than 100 events each year feature sophisticated, topically relevant presentations of Japanese art and culture and open, critical dialogue on issues of vital importance to the U.S., Japan and East Asia. An American nonprofit, nonpolitical organization, the Society cultivates a constructive, resonant and dynamic relationship between the people of the U.S. and Japan.

 

An Evening with Daido Moriyama takes place Thursday, November 3 at 6:30 pm. Japan Society is located at 333 East 47th Street between First and Second avenues (accessible by the 4/5/6 at 42nd Street-Grand Central Station or the E and V at Lexington Avenue and 53rd St.) Tickets are $14/$10 Japan Society members, seniors and students. For reservations or more information, visit www.japansociety.org or call the box office at 212-715-1258.

 

Japan Airlines is the exclusive Japanese Airline sponsor of Lecture Programs at Japan Society. United Airlines is the exclusive U.S. Airline sponsor of Lecture Programs at Japan Society. Additional support is provided by Chris A. Wachenheim and the Sandy Heck Lecture Fund.   

 

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