"Tokyo GlamRock: Art and Rock Featuring GORGEROUS Rock Band from Tokyo"
2003-03-14 until 2003-04-17
Morley Gallery
London, , UK United Kingdom

Curated by Siumee Keelan, this exhibition presents a site-specific installation of Hiroyuki Matsukage's photographic images and Muneteru Ujino's posters and Love Arms (sculptures). The installation is significant for its emphasis on syncretic art practice. In other words, it is neither merely a synthesis of American and Japanese cultures, nor a hybrid that fuses them in order to sublimate them in a pure, new form. Instead the project draws on disjunction between and within each culture.

These ruptures become more marked when they are enacted in artistic practice. Tensions emerge within the performative aspects of the work: the acting out by artists of fractured identities in relation to the normative discourses which they parody. The jarring references, which range from the mass-consumer world of sports, rock music and glamour pics to the art-conscious repertoire of Futurist noise machines, 1960s Happenings and Cyborg Theory, carve out new spaces which resolutely expose the contradictions of cultural assimilation and simulation in the global market place.

www.tokyoglamrock.org.uk

IMAGE:
Muneteru Ujino
Love Arm
Photograph

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