SHORT LIST
STAFF BLOG

December 9, 2019 5:16 PM

Tokyo Culture Guide 東京都現代美術館: Dump Type

The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo: MOT was opened in March, 1995. MOT is focusing primarily on postwar Japanese art and contemporary art. Currently, it has a respective show of leading Japanese media artist collective Dumb Type.
Dumb Type
Founded in Kyoto in 1984 by students of Kyoto City University of Arts, Dumb Type is a multi-media performance artist group centered on Teiji Furuhashi (1960-1995) which garnered attention for its highly inventive, non-hierarchic pieces which develop as collaborations between members who each pursued their own individual artistic style.
Within the superficiality, despair and seduction of 1980s Bubble-era Japan, the group was highly sensitive to a societal "lack of any awareness in spite of an overabundance of information" (=dumb) and developed artworks with a sharp, critical nature.
As a reaction against the textual emptiness of many language-driven performance groups, Dumb Type pursued a word-less approach (=dumb, mute) and composed works based around sound, video and installation pieces as well as the performers' reactions towards them.
Based in Japan, Dumb Type became world-wide pioneers who employed a revolutionary visual language and philosophy to express their visions of the "posthuman," born from new relations between body and technology.
text from the exhibition web-page
Seiya Kato
k2019120901 (20).JPGk2019120902 (22).JPGk2019120903 (20).JPGk2019120904 (18).JPGk2019120905 (20).JPGk2019120906 (18).JPGk2019120908 (14).JPGk2019120909 (14).JPGk2019120910 (14).JPGk2019120911 (15).JPGk2019120912 (13).JPGk2019120913 (13).JPGk2019120914 (12).JPGk2019120915(12).JPGk2019120916 (10).JPGk2019120917 (8).JPGk2019120918 (6).JPGk2019120919 (8).JPGk2019120920 (8).JPGk2019120921 (7).JPGk2019120922 (4).JPGk2019120923 (5).JPGk2019120924 (4).JPGk2019120925 (4).JPGk2019120926 (4).JPGk2019120927 (4).JPGk2019120928 (3).JPGk2019120929 (3).JPGk2019120930 (3).JPGk2019120931 (3).JPGk2019120932 (3).JPGk2019120933 (3).JPGk2019120934 (4).JPG
Seiya Kato
Please let us know any
questions or requests.
TOLL FREE
0120-632-122
INTERNATIONAL
+81-3-6226-5711
EMAIL US