Godfre Leung is Assistant Professor of Art History at St. Cloud State University, where he teaches courses on modern and contemporary art and culture. His writing has appeared in Afterimage, Art Journal. caa.reviews, and Widok. Teorie i praktyki kultury wizualnej / View: Theories and Practices of Visual Culture. He is currently working on a book project on sound-based art of the mid-1980s that pursues a theory of the digital through critical uses of reproductive sound media.
The three short essays that follow were written in response to works composed and performed by Tone Yasunao as part of the program “Tokyo: Experiments in Music and Performance” presented at The Museum of Modern Art’s Celeste Bartos Theater on January 10, 2013. I. Smooth Event (1962) Tone Yasunao walks onstage and approaches a table.…
