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A talk and performance by Shiomi presented in conjunction with the exhibition MOT Collection Chronicle 1964–: Off Museum at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, on April 29, 2012.

Initiated in the late 1950s in Zagreb, in the former Yugoslavia, and dissolved less than a decade later, the Gorgona Group continues to fascinate. Since the group’s first exhibition in 1977, generations of artists and art historians from Eastern Europe have viewed its ephemeral, collective artistic practices as the foundation for the later development of…

Iako raspuštena vec desetljeće nakon svog osnivanja u kasnim 50-im godinama 20. stolječa u bivšoj Jugoslaviji, grupa Gorgona još uvijek fascinira. Od njihove prve izložbe 1977. godine, generacije umjetnika i povjesničara umjetnosti iz Istočne Europe smatrali su da je kratkotrajno umjetničko djelovanje ove grupe temelj kasnijeg razvoja konceptualizma koji je u šezdesetim godinama cvjetao u…

From Juilliard to Fluxus and traditional Japanese music, this essay, which traces the multifaceted music of Toshi Ichiyanagi, is based on a C-MAP workshop led by Yayoi Uno Everett in January 2012. [1] This presentation explores Ichiyanagi Toshi’s philosophy and aesthetics during the years 1961–64, when he was composing indeterminate music and graphic scores, and…