Is this Gutai ?
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Conceived by River Lin, Is this Gutai? is an online event consisting of a webcam-performance intervention, lecture, screening and post-show discussion with Japanese choreograoher and the Artistic Director of Tokyo Real Underground Festival Takao Kawaguchi.
Under the ongoing travel restrictions of Covid-19, the project Dancing with Gutai Art Manifesto 1956 is transformed into the online presentation. By proposing the question “Is this Gutai” as the event title, River Lin stages a zoom happening with 4 window-grids revisiting iconic images or methoods of Gutai artists Tanaka Atsuko, Murakami Saburo, Shimamoto Shozo and Montonaga Sadamasa. Through playing with the inter-gaze and framing of webcam, filter and virtual background of the video-conferening application, this intervention reimangines ways of performing (for) the webcam in the Gutai-art context.
Under the ongoing travel restrictions of Covid-19, the project Dancing with Gutai Art Manifesto 1956 is transformed into the online presentation. By proposing the question “Is this Gutai” as the event title, River Lin stages a zoom happening with 4 window-grids revisiting iconic images or methoods of Gutai artists Tanaka Atsuko, Murakami Saburo, Shimamoto Shozo and Montonaga Sadamasa. Through playing with the inter-gaze and framing of webcam, filter and virtual background of the video-conferening application, this intervention reimangines ways of performing (for) the webcam in the Gutai-art context.
Concept: River Lin
Performance: Eric Tsai, Chien Shih-Han, Chang Yun-Chen and River Lin
28 May 2021 at Tokyo Real Underground Festival, part of Tokyo Tokyo Festival special 13 projects.
Watch the online event: www.tokyorealunderground.net/TRU2021042420210815OnLine/0528EN.html
Performance: Eric Tsai, Chien Shih-Han, Chang Yun-Chen and River Lin
28 May 2021 at Tokyo Real Underground Festival, part of Tokyo Tokyo Festival special 13 projects.
Watch the online event: www.tokyorealunderground.net/TRU2021042420210815OnLine/0528EN.html
Choreography
My body is a public collection
(2023)My body is a queer library
(2022)My body is a queer history museum
(2019/2022)Dancing with Gutai art manifesto 1956
(2020)My body is a queer academy
(2022)20 Minutes for the 20th Century, but Asian
(2016)Transgender Exercise
(2022)![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2594e52a3a61091c05e1fd4a0fd9c0943780e8150d8ab300cfafc764e320680f/IMG_5203.jpg)
Art History on Escalators
(2021)![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e8067c4e67aacbfc88554f1aa46f1dc9dcc579b644edcce29d7a9d5c059580f/Screen-Shot-2021-06-19-at-9.00.07-AM.png)
Is this Gutai?
(2021)
Fw: Wall-floor-window Positions
(2020)![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b8551a2a001b36dd55b510aec4365deb994aec68e3f18c6e5532060701050ce/Screen-Shot-2020-08-26-at-00.35.25.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc03f10b2ea1052a9c9348a070139f2349ec3ba18fb8bdd7350da19c4dbf4e45/m_250514-aleks-slota-3.jpg)
River Walk
(2014)Installation / mixed media
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a22247df11e8b368389fedde5d13de599cf00a80e0d75388465eb121ed806384/Screen-Shot-2021-10-26-at-8.47.44-PM.png)
Sleeping Series
(2019-ongoing)Live action / happening
Je suis Le Monde
(2018)
other pieces
(2015-2018)![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a8e635b03487a333c8d709a85ce43f4f4e713e984d3b7c6e9581273f77f91bf/-2019-09-12-3.46.11.png)