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Community of Images programs offer a wide range of access and experiences, from online screenings available to international audiences, to local (Philadelphia) gatherings geared towards artists, students, scholars, and anyone between!
The exhibition at the Philadelphia Art Alliance is located at 251 S 18th St, Philadelphia, PA 19103
June 14 — August 9, 2024
Hours: Wed—Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 12-5pm
Following our in-person screening in June, Magnetic Resonances: Japanese and American Artists in the 1975 ICA Video Art Exhibition, this November we are thrilled to partner with Electronic Arts Intermix to present two more works shown in the landmark exhibition of US and Japanese artists at the Philadelphia ICA.
Our October Members’ Viewing features documentation by artist and inventor Ko Nakajima of two of the major displays of global technology of the 1960s, Montreal’s Expo ‘67 and Osaka’s Expo ‘70 (also known as banpaku). His film, which splices together footage from both Osaka and Montreal, offers a rare comparative insight into the two events.
As a way to highlight the video letter exchange format that accompanied the rise of video discussed in the Community of Images exhibition, CCJ and JASGP commissioned a group of four contemporary video artists to produce today’s video letter exchange. A nod to the Video Letter (1983), a remarkable 64-minute compilation exchange of video letters that took place between video artists Shuji Terayama and Shuntaro Tanikawa, the contemporary exchange is led by Philadelphia-based artist Nadia Hironaka, who organized an exchange with US and Japan-based artists Shinpei Takeda (San Diego), Hikaru Suzuki (Tokyo) and Yu Araki (Kyoto). Before the screening, Philadelphia-based Japanese-Taiwanese artist Eiko Fan will perform her Live Wood Sculpture.
Featuring the digitization projects that were part of the Community of Images exhibition, we are pleased to share with our members selected works and moving image materials that were on view during the show. September’s Members Viewing will feature selected archival reels by Jud Yalkut that were presented in Gallery B in the exhibition.
Performance by Kuroshio featuring Jason Finkelman, Joy Yang and special guest Geoff Gersh, Aaron Pond Trio, and DuiJi!
Day 5 and final day of Dôme Do, We features morning yoga by Monarch Yoga, Self-portrait Time Lapse, paper-dome souvenir activity, sound activation by False Friends QUAD, and Termite TV Collective video projection installation!!
As part of the Community of Images exhibition, we are pleased to invite artist and urban planner Yukihisa Isobe to revisit his connection to Philadelphia and New York City of the 1960s and ‘70s, and his inflatable work, Air Dome (1970).
In the 2024 interpretation of Air Dome, Philadelphia artist Aaron Igler will lead the design and programming of a community-built dome structure titled DÔME DO.WE (a space for reset). The project was conceived as a site for collaborative skillshare, small group dialog, a lecture program, sonic performances, film screening, and more.
Day 4 of Dôme Do, We, features morning yoga by Monarch Yoga, Self-portrait Time Lapse, paper-dome souvenir activity, Supreme Oasis broadcast, and sound activation by CAROLYN SNOW!
As part of the Community of Images exhibition, we are pleased to invite artist and urban planner Yukihisa Isobe to revisit his connection to Philadelphia and New York City of the 1960s and ‘70s, and his inflatable work, Air Dome (1970).
In the 2024 interpretation of Air Dome, Philadelphia artist Aaron Igler will lead the design and programming of a community-built dome structure titled DÔME DO.WE (a space for reset). The project was conceived as a site for collaborative skillshare, small group dialog, a lecture program, sonic performances, film screening, and more.
Day 3 of Dôme Do, We features morning yoga by Monarch Yoga, Self-portrait Time Lapse, paper-dome souvenir activity,, and sonic activation by UNIVERSAL RHYTHM!
As part of the Community of Images exhibition, we are pleased to invite artist and urban planner Yukihisa Isobe to revisit his connection to Philadelphia and New York City of the 1960s and ‘70s, and his inflatable work, Air Dome (1970).
In the 2024 interpretation of Air Dome, Philadelphia artist Aaron Igler will lead the design and programming of a community-built dome structure titled DÔME DO.WE (a space for reset). The project was conceived as a site for collaborative skillshare, small group dialog, a lecture program, sonic performances, film screening, and more.
Day 2 of Dôme Do, We features morning yoga by Monarch Yoga, paper-dome workshop by Yuka Yokoyama, and David Dempewolf, Self-portrait Time Lapse, and sonic activation by TAKEDA!
As part of the Community of Images exhibition, we are pleased to invite artist and urban planner Yukihisa Isobe to revisit his connection to Philadelphia and New York City of the 1960s and ‘70s, and his inflatable work, Air Dome (1970).
In the 2024 interpretation of Air Dome, Philadelphia artist Aaron Igler will lead the design and programming of a community-built dome structure titled DÔME DO.WE (a space for reset). The project was conceived as a site for collaborative skillshare, small group dialog, a lecture program, sonic performances, film screening, and more.
Day 1 of Dôme Do, We, is the communal building of the geodesic dome. Come see it in action!
As part of the Community of Images exhibition, we are pleased to invite artist and urban planner Yukihisa Isobe to revisit his connection to Philadelphia and New York City of the 1960s and ‘70s, and his inflatable work, Air Dome (1970).
In the 2024 interpretation of Air Dome, Philadelphia artist Aaron Igler will lead the design and programming of a community-built dome structure titled DÔME DO.WE (a space for reset). The project was conceived as a site for collaborative skillshare, small group dialog, a lecture program, sonic performances, film screening, and more.
As part of the Community of Images exhibition, we are pleased to invite artist and urban planner Yukihisa Isobe to revisit his connection to Philadelphia and New York City of the 1960s and ‘70s, and his inflatable work, Air Dome (1970).
In the 2024 interpretation of Air Dome, Philadelphia artist Aaron Igler will lead the design and programming of a community-built dome structure titled DÔME DO.WE (a space for reset). The project was conceived as a site for collaborative skillshare, small group dialog, a lecture program, sonic performances, film screening, and more.
CCJ is pleased do collaborate with Asia Art Archive in America to present the Video Letter Exchange made by four contemporary artists led by Philadelphia-based artist Nadia Hironaka, who organized an exchange with US and Japan-based artists Shinpei Takeda (San Diego), Hikaru Suzuki (Tokyo) and Yu Araki (Kyoto).
In August, as the promotion of the Video Letter Exchange between artists Nadia Hironaka, Shinpei Takeda, Hikaru Suzuki and Yu Araki continues as part of our Community of Images project, we are thrilled to present to our members two more works from participating artists Shinpei Takeda and Nadia Hironaka, with her collaborator Michael Suib. Both works use video as a means of exploring the ways traumatic histories resonate in the present day.
Are you seeking a unique and enriching experience for your child this summer? Look no further! PhillyCAM will host their Youth Media Workshop in connection to the Community of Images exhibition.
Youth participants will receive a guided tour of the exhibit, learning about early examples of the use of video technology and independent filmmaking for documentation of protests, communication, and alternative news reporting, followed by a hands-on workshop with PhillyCAM to create a short media piece as a creative response.
We are sorry to announce that this event has been postponed due to an environmental event that occurred in the vicinity of the Bartram’s Garden. The event will be scheduled at a later date in the summer, stay tuned!
CCJ and JASGP commissioned a group of four contemporary video artists to produce today’s video letter exchange. A nod to the Video Letter (1983), a remarkable 64-minute compilation exchange of video letters that took place between video artists Shuji Terayama and Shuntaro Tanikawa, the contemporary exchange is led by Philadelphia-based artist Nadia Hironaka, who organized an exchange with US and Japan-based artists Shinpei Takeda (San Diego), Hikaru Suzuki (Tokyo) and Yu Araki (Kyoto). The screening will present in partnership with cinéSPEAK at the Bartram’s Garden.
In July, to coincide with the release of our Video Letter Exchange between artists Nadia Hironaka, Shinpei Takeda, Hikaru Suzuki and Yu Araki as part of our Community of Images project, we are thrilled to present to our members two more works from the participating artists, Yu Araki and Hikaru Suzuki with his collaborator Franca Malfatti. Both works use video as a means of making imagined journeys between remote locations: Araki’s ROAD MOVIE (2014) documents a “road trip” performed with a fast-food menu, while in Suzuki and Malfatti’s video letter, its authors exchange fragments of their outer and inner lives in the year 2020.
Bring the family to a fun low tech video art-making session! Inspired by the works from the exhibition, we will be making immersive light installations and crowdsourced animation. All you need to bring is your imagination and your smartphone. Be prepared to collaborate, draw, build, and play. Artists Aki Torii and Tad Sare will lead this workshop.
ご家族でこの夏楽しいローテク映像アート作成セッションに参加してみませんか？展覧会の作品からインスピレーションを得て、臨場感あふれる光のインスタレーションや、クラウドソースのアニメーションを制作します。持ち物は、あなたの想像力とスマートフォンだけです。コラボレーションしたり、絵を描いたり、組み立てたりして楽しみましょう！
As part of the opening events for the Community of Images exhibition, JASGP and CCJ are hosting a one-day symposium at University of Pennsylvania that is being co-presented by the Center for East Asian Studies and the Asian American Studies Program. In addition to presenting original research from the curatorial team that shaped the exhibition, this symposium will feature a roundtable panel related to Asian American independent film and media arts movements that developed during the same time period among Asian diasporic communities in the US. Exploring these contemporaneous Asian American filmmakers and video artists, the objective is not to link them or their works directly to the Japanese artists, but rather discuss in parallel as contemporaries who emerged from the same generation and were simultaneously navigating questions of race and self-identity through the context of media.
Confirmed presenters include:
Ann Adachi-Tasch (Collaborative Cataloguing Japan)
Rob Buscher (University of Pennsylvania)
E. Samantha Cheng (Independent Producer)
Peter X. Feng (University of Delaware)
Go Hirasawa (Meiji-Gakuin University)
Nina Horisaki-Christens (Getty Research Institute)
Julian Ross (Leiden University)
Join us in this screening with curator Suzanne Delehanty who organized Video Art, the international video art survey exhibition in 1975 at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Co-curators of the screening program, Ann Adachi-Tasch, Nina Horisaki-Christens, and Julian Ross will be present.
In this special screening within the Community of Images exhibition with artist and musician Yasunao Tone, curator Go Hirasawa will organize a program featuring Tone’s film and film scores. Yasunao Tone will be at the screening.
Please join in this special panel discussion co-organized by the Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation and Collaborative Cataloging Japan, with speakers Barbara London, Suzanne Delahanty, Rebecca Cleman, and Nina Horisaki-Christens. The discussion will revolve around the Video Art Talk Shows, a program series organized by Shigeko Kubota at the Anthology Film Archives in the mid-1970s. In the Community of Images exhibition, documentation of two events were digitized and will be presented.
In partnership with Twelve Gates Arts. and part of the Community of Images exhibition, the screening and artist talk The Curfew Lookbook with Shehrezad Maher will be presented on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, from 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM at Twelve Gates Arts, 106 N 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA.
This June, CCJ are thrilled to present a series of performance records drawn from a set of 1972 reels in the collection of Michael Goldberg, a Canadian video artist foundational to the early days of video art in Japan. Digitized in 2023 as part of our Community of Images project, the records feature Video Hiroba member and conceptual artist Gann Matsushita, a rehearsal of the avant-garde theater troupe Tokyo Kid Brothers filmed handheld by Goldberg, and other scenes captured by Goldberg with Matsushita around Tokyo.
From March-May 2024, as part of our Community of Images series and in collaboration with Hitoshi Kubo and Keio University Art Center, we are thrilled to present a three-month feature on the early Japanese video collective, the Video Information Center (VIC). The extensive program is a comprehensive introduction to the group’s tireless documentation of underground arts and culture in Japan’s 1970s and 1980s.
Join us in this discussion between artists Idalia Vasquez and Sinta Storms about their process of making art as migrants to the US, and how they define their expressive forms within the multiple racial identities they carry. In the conversation, we will explore how the term ‘diaspora’ functions when thinking about the locality of their practices.
EAI and Collaborative Cataloging Japan (CCJ) are thrilled to present a free in-person screening of a selection of video and film highlighting the exchange of avant-garde experimentation in New York and Japan during the 1960s and 70s, featuring Jud Yalkut, Masanori Ōe and Akiko Iimura.
From March-May 2024, as part of our Community of Images series and in collaboration with Hitoshi Kubo and Keio University Art Center, we are thrilled to present a three-month feature on the early Japanese video collective, the Video Information Center (VIC). The extensive program is a comprehensive introduction to the group’s tireless documentation of underground arts and culture in Japan’s 1970s and 1980s.
From March-May 2024, as part of our Community of Images series and in collaboration with Hitoshi Kubo and Keio University Art Center, we are thrilled to present a three-month feature on the early Japanese video collective, the Video Information Center (VIC). The extensive program is a comprehensive introduction to the group’s tireless documentation of underground arts and culture in Japan’s 1970s and 1980s.
This February, as part of our Community of Images series and our Meander program, we are thrilled to present a feature on the screening collective Ground Level Cinema (グラウンドレベルシネマ). The group is comprised of members from both Japan and Taiwan, and the program features contributions from Johan Chang & Masa Kudo, Hsin-Yu Chen and Kenta Yamaguchi.
This January we present the second program in our series on image-processing in Japan and North America: a focus on the life of Ko Nakajima’s two commercial animation computers, the Animaker and the Aniputer, and their subsequent life among video artists in Canada.
