Shigeko Kubota - Installations and Videos - Videography

Videography

• Marcel Duchamp and John Cage: 1972, 28:27 min, b&w and color, sound: Shigeko Kubota recorded the Reunion performance of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, a chess match in which music was produced by a series of photoelectric cells underneath the chessboard, triggered sporadically by normal game play. Kubota assembled this video using her own photographs and video. Reunion turned out to be the last public meeting of these artists. With her footage, Shigeko Kubota developed this videotape, a video-sculpture, and a book called, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, which she reportedly later placed on Duchamp's grave in Rouen, Normandy.
• Broken Diary: Europe on 1/2 Inch a Day: 1972, 30:48 min, b&w and color, sound: Europe on 1/2 Inch a Day is the first of Shigeko Kubota's series of video diaries. Kubota used a Portapak to create the video travel diary of her travels through Amsterdam, Paris, and Brussels– which includes footage of underground performances, Kubota's meeting with Joseph Beuys in Düsseldorf, grafitti, and a visit to Marcel Duchamp’s grave in Rouen, Normandy, which inspired her later sculptural work, Video Chess'.
• Riverrun– Video Water Poem: 1972: When filming Broken Diary: Europe on 1/2 Inch a Day Kubota took footage of her boat trips on the Seine, the Rhine, the Amsterdam canal, and the Venice Canal. Riverrun includes this footage and footage from boat trips on the Hudson. The video includes audio excerpts from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
• My Father (Shigeko Kubota), 1973-1975: In the film she explains that when she found out her father had died of cancer she decided to film herself mourning. In the footage, Kubota cries while watching videos she recorded of her father watching TV at his home in Japan.
• Video Girls and Video Songs for Navajo Sky: 1973, 31:56 min, b&w and color, sound: In 1973, Shigeko Kubota began experimenting with image processing equipment at WNET's TV Lab and produced Video Girls and Video Songs for Navajo Skies. The video is a surreal diary of Kubota’s stay with a Navajo family on a reservation in Chinle, Arizona with footage of the family and the surrounding landscape. ”
• Allan 'n' Allen's Complaint: Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota: 1982, 28:33 min, color, sound
• Trip to Korea: 1984, 9:05 min, color, sound: The story of Nam June Paik's first trip to Korea after thirty-four years of being in the USA. Video includes footage of Nam June Paik's family, and his visits to a Korean village, and a graveyard where his ancestors lay.
• SoHo Soap/Rain Damage: 1985, 8:25 min, color, sound: Video of Kubota's co-op studio at 110 Mercer Street, New York, and rain damage during a storm.
• George Maciunas With Two Eyes 1972, George Maciunas With One Eye 1976 :1994, 7 min, b&w, sound
• Sexual Healing: 1998, 4:10 min, color, sound
• April is the Cruelest Month: 1999, 52 min, color, sound
• Winter in Miami: 2005 2006, 14 min, color, sound
• Korean Grave: 1993 (A homage to Nam June Paik)