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(2 August 1937 – 23 July 2015) was a Japanese-born video artist, sculptor and avant-garde performance artist, who mostly lived in New York City. Kubota’s career peaked in 1967, when she was one of the first artists to adopt the portable video camera Sony Portapak. Kubota is known for constructing sculptural installations with a strong DIY aesthetic, which include sculptures with embedded monitors playing her original videos. She was a key member and influence on Fluxus, the international group of avant-garde artists centered on George Maciunas, having been involved with the group since witnessing John Cage perform in Tokyo in 1962 and subsequently moving to New York in 1964.〔Yoshimoto, Midori. "Self-exploration in Multimedia : the Experiments of Shigeko Kubota," in Into performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press. 2005.〕 She was closely associated with George Brecht, Jackson Mac Low, John Cage, Joe Jones, Nam June Paik, and Ay-O, other members of Fluxus. Kubota was deemed "Vice Chairman" of the Fluxus Organization in 1964, a title given by Brecht. Kubota's video and sculptural works are mainly shown in galleries – though her use of the television is synonymous with other video artists of the 1960s who made experimental broadcast programs as a move against the hegemony of major networks.〔See: M. Gever, "Pressure Points: Video in the Public Sphere," Art Journal 45.3, 1985.〕 Kubota is known for her contribution to the expansion of the field of video into the field of sculpture and for her works addressing the place of video in art history.〔Jacob, Mary Jane ed. ''Shigeko Kubota: Video Sculpture''. New York: American Museum of the Moving Image, 1991. Includes: Roth, Moria, "The Voice of Shigeko Kubota:' A Fusion of Art and Life, Asia and America,'" and Hanley, JoAnn, "Reflections in a Video Mirror."〕 Her work explores the influence of the technology, and more specifically the television set, on personal memory and the emotions. Some works for example, eulogize, while also exploring the presence of the deceased in video footage and recorded images such as her ''Duchampiana'' series, the video My Father, and her later works ''Korean Grave'' and ''Winter in Miami'' which eulogize her husband Nam June Paik. Kubota's sculptures also play with ways in which video footage and sculptures which utilize videos can evoke nature, as in her ''Meta-Marcel'', ''Bird'', and ''Tree'' series' and in ''River'', and ''Rock Video: Cherry Blossoms''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Electronic Arts Intermix : Shigeko Kubota : Biography )〕 ==Biography== Kubota was born to a family of monk lineage associated with a Buddhist temple in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, where she lived through World War II.〔"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. 189〕 As a young adult, she moved to Tokyo to study sculpture at the Tokyo University of Education. She was introduced to the experimental music collective in Tokyo called Gurupu Ongaku (Group Music) by her aunt Chiya Kuni, an established modern dancer. Members of Gurupu Ongaku included Takehisa Kosugi, Chieko Shiomi, Yasunao Tone, who were experimenting with tape recorders, noise music, and avant-garde performances in the early 1960s. Shigeko Kubota first met John Cage and Yoko Ono at Tokyo Bunka Hall in Ueno when he was on tour there in 1962. Yoko Ono was a dancer for Cage's concert tour through Japan in 1962. In December 1963, Kubota had her first solo show, "1st Love, 2nd Love..." at Naiqua Gallery in Tokyo, an alternative/ avant-garde space in Shinbashi, Tokyo. Later that year, she moved to New York after exchanging letters with George Maciunas about the New York Fluxus scene. Her first show in New York was on July 4, 1965 at Cinemateque as part of the perpetual Fluxfest, where she performed her famous "Vagina Painting." After this exhibition, Kubota exhibited her works regularly in New York. In 1965 she was married to Nam June Paik after divorcing her first husband, the composer David Behrman. Kubota continued her studies at New York University and the New School for Social Research 1965-1967. She studied at the Art School of the Brooklyn Museum 1967-1968. Kubota taught at the School of Visual Arts, and was video artist-in residence at Brown University in 1981 and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1973, 1981, 1982, and 1984, and at the Kunst Akademie in Düsseldorf in 1979. She also helped to coordinate the first annual Women's Video Festival at The Kitchen in 1972. From 1974-1982 she was a curator at the Anthology Film Archives. She died in Manhattan, New York on 23 July 2015 at the age of 77 from cancer.〔http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/arts/design/shigeko-kubota-a-creator-of-video-sculptures-dies-at-77.html〕 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「Shigeko Kubota」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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