Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver's Cinematic Illumination is now on view at MoMA!

We are truly excited for the opening of Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver’s 18 slide projector piece, Cinematic Illumination (1968-69), at The Museum of Modern Art until February 2021! Delayed due to Covid-19 closures, the piece is finally presented to the public starting today.

We applaud the team at MoMA, Sophie Cavoulacos, Peter Oleksik, and Stuart Comer, for the stunning re-staging of this work in New York.

Read at links below for more information about our relationship with Gulliver and our work toward presenting this amazing piece outside of Japan, including about scholar Go Hirasawa’s mission to re-present it to a wider audience, and Hiroko Tasaka’s exhibition that included the work at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in 2017.

The Path to Presenting Cinematic Illumination

Interview: Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver

As part of the Japanese Expanded Cinema research thread, CCJ partners Go Hirasawa and Hiroko Tasaka interviewed artist Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver in 2017. Hiroko Tasaka organized the exhibition Japanese Expanded Cinema Revisited at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in 2017, which included Gulliver’s Cinematic Illumination (1968-1969). Go Hirasawa was a major contributor to the exhibition.

Artist Talk: Gulliver

Presentation about his film practice of late-1960s. Organized by Collaborative Cataloging Japan and co-presented with Vox Populi Gallery on February 19, 2017.