Takehisa Kosugi
dal 12/9/2015 al 12/9/2015
Segnalato da
12/9/2015
Takehisa Kosugi
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Music Expanded, Program 2
Legendary Japanese avant-garde musician Takehisa Kosugi presents Music Expanded, a two-day retrospective spanning over fifty years of his work, and comprised of both his seminal Events of the 1960s and his iconoclastic live electronic works from the 1980s through the 2000s. Kosugi will be joined by collaborators Kiyoshi Izumi and Ken Hamazaki for this performance. Events encouraged audiences to rethink the nature of music-proposing that it could be visual, highly performative, and even consist of everyday actions that had been greatly slowed down or electronically amplified. For Kosugi, music understood in this way could instigate a philosophical reconsideration of the boundaries of art, music, and life. His approach exemplifies an aesthetic shared by other radical artists of the time including John Cage and La Monte Young.