Shigeko Kubota: 'Thanks To My Ancestors' (1981)

Fluxkit (1966-67)

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1.  Shigeko Kubota, Fluxus      

             FLUX NAPKINS          1967          

2. Shigeko Kubota | MoMA

Shigeko Kubota Flux Napkins1967

Shigeko Kubota (1937–2015) Berlin Diary: Thanks to My Ancestors [1981]

cathode-ray tube monitor, crystal, ink, and twine, 22.9 × 20.3 × 27.9 cm. © 2021 Estate of Shigeko Kubota / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo © 2021 Museum of Modern Art, New York; by Denis Doorly. Image courtesy of the artist; Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna; Modern Women’s Fund; and Museum of Modern Art, New York.

"FLUX NAPKINS" | 1967 SHIGEKO KUBOTA 久保田 成子 DESIGNED by GEORGE MACIUNAS [plastic box with offset label, containing paper napkin with collage additions | 10 x 12 x 1 cm.]

Shigeko Kubota: Nude Descending a Staircase (1976)

shigeko kubota, rock video cherry blossom, 1986.

Self-Portrait (1970-1, Shigeko Kubota)

Reunion (1968)

Recorded in 1968 at Ryerson Theatre,Toronto, but published in 1970 in 500 numbered copies, photobook with pictures by Shigeo Kubota.

The year 2008 marked the fortieth anniversary of Reunion, a performance in which games of chess determined the form and acoustical ambience of a musical event. The concert – held at the Ryerson Theatre in Toronto, Canada – began shortly after 8:30 on the evening of March 5, 1968, and concluded at approximately 1:00 a.m. the next morning. Principal players were John Cage, who conceived (but did not actually “compose”) the work; Marcel Duchamp and his wife Alexina (Teeny); and composers David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor, and Lowell Cross. Except for a brief curtain call with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company in Buffalo, NY five days later (March 10, 1968), Duchamp made his last public stage appearance – in the role of chess master – in Reunion.

This release by Shigeko Kubota represents the only publicly-released recording of this event, and is merely a taste of what occurred. Kubota's book contains a series of photographs from the event and a 7-inch flexidisc record. The book is paired with text by John Cage, titled "36 Acrostics re and not re Duchamp," with the instruction "A given letter capitalized does not occur among the letters between it and the preceding capitalized letter."

Performers: John Cage and Marcel Duchamp, with David Behrman, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, Lowell Cross, and Teeny Duchamp

Fluxus 1, (book with offset, metal bolts and stamped ink, containing objects in various media, in wood box), Designed by George Maciunas, Fluxux, New York, NY, 1964 [Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. MoMA, New York, NY. © ARS, NY]

Collaborating artists: George Brecht, Brion Gysin, Sohei Hashimoto, Dick Higgins, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, Takehisa Kosugi, Shigeko Kubota, György Ligeti, Jackson Mac Low, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Takako Saito, Tomas Schmit, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, La Monte Young

viva video! the art + life of shigeko kubota (2021)

SHIGEKO KUBOTA, Video Girls and Video Songs for Navajo Sky, 1973

Shigeko Kubota, Meta-Marcel: Window (Flowers) (detail), 1976-77/83, Photo by Peter Moore, Courtesy of Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation; ©Estate of Shigeko Kubota