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''My Father'' (14:26) is a black and white video recorded on a Sony Portapak produced between 1973 and 1975 by the Japanese Fluxus video artist, sculptor, and performance artist Shigeko Kubota. ''My Father'' begins with text that explains that Kubota's father died of cancer on the day she had bought a plane ticket from New York to see him in Japan. That day, she called a friend, who suggested that she film herself while mourning. Images of Kubota's father watching television, one of his favorite pastimes, are dispersed in the video, as are images of Kubota grieving alone in her house. Kubota explains during the video that she took the footage of her father two years earlier in Japan when she visited him after he had first been diagnosed with cancer. The video emphasizes that television compliments memory and that TV monitors are sites of memory and of emotionality, a theme that is suggested in ''Shigeko Kubotas video eulogies to Nam June Paik in the 1980s and 1990s, ''Korean Grave'', and ''Winter in Miami''. Also, Kubota's ''Duchampiana'' series eulogizes Marcel Duchamp, while exploring the presence of the artist in recorded images of him. ''My Father'' is an elegy, and a video diary, reflecting on the influence of the technology, and more specifically the television set, on her personal memory of her father, and her emotions of simultaneously grieving and seeing him on a television monitor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=4171 )〕 Ann-Sargent Wooster argues that ''My Father'' explores the ironic duality of the image of a person appearing on a TV screen after they have died– in a sense, bringing the dead to life.〔Wooster, Ann-Sargent, “Shigeko Kubota: I Travel Alone,” High Performance, Winter 1991, 28. 〕 In the video, Kubota touches the screen of a monitor with her father's image as if reaching out to him. ''My Father'' also has been interpreted as performative.〔Warr, Tracey, and Amelia Jones. 2000. The artist's body. London: Phaidon.〕 As Andrew Parker describes the term, "performativity has enable a powerful appreciation of the ways that identities are constructed iteratively through complex citational processes.〔Parker, Andrew and Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, Performativity and Performance, 1995. 2〕 ''My Father'' has been linked to performativity because of its disruption of the viewer's sense of space and time as Kubota's mourning appears to take place as the figure of her father lingers on the television, both present and absent, as a ghost incarnated.〔On performativity see: Parker and Sedgwick, Performativity and Performance, 1995; and Muñoz, "Performing Disidentifications," in Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics, 1999. 〕〔"Self-exploration in multimedia : the experiments of Shigeko Kubota," in Yoshimoto, Midori. 2005. ''Into performance: Japanese women artists in New York.'' New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press. 〕 ==Collections== * San Francisco Museum of Modern Art〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/9078 )〕 * Museum of Modern Art〔(The Collection, MoMA ). Retrieved 16 April 2013.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「My Father (Shigeko Kubota)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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