Video Letter Exchange: Community of Images

3:00PM Eiko Fan performance — Before the screening, Philadelphia-based Japanese-Taiwanese artist Eiko Fan will perform her Live Wood Sculpture.
3:30-5PM Screening (15-30 min after sunset)—Film Order: Video Letter Exchange (2024); Video Letter (1983)

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.

Co-presentation by Collaborative Cataloging Japan, Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia Society of Greater Philadelphia, and cinéSPEAK, with Sponsorship by Asian Arts Initiative