Hiraki Sawa (Japanese, 1977– )
still from Hako (Box), 2006
Single channel DVD, 4 minutes
On loan from James Cohan Gallery, New York/Shanghai
Moving Images
Black Box Theater + Video Classrooms
18 February - 3 June 2012
This semester, the UIMA continues to “think outside the box” and present ambitious video artwork in locations around campus.
Black Box Theater, IMU
Zeno Writing by William Kentridge, February 18–April 1
Kentridge’s film re-imagines Italo Svevo’s 1923 novel Confessions of Zeno, as a stream-of-consciousness autobiography that is revealed through a poetic pastiche of archival footage and stop-motion animation, altered and erased in a continuous process of transformation.
Hako (Box) by Hiraki Sawa, April 7–June 3
Inspired by Sawa’s interest in Victorian dolls’ houses and play therapy, Hako is an exploration of the Jungian concept of “sandplay.” Hiraki Sawa’s videos have placed him at the forefront of a new generation of video artists.
Video Classrooms: Studio Arts and UI Main Library
Video Cubano, ongoing
Video Cubano is a program of 31 works by 21 Cuban video artists, curated in response to an international open call for creative video that barred residents of U.S. sanctioned countries from participating.
Intermedia Moment, ongoing. Now playing at Video Classrooms at Studio Arts and the UI Main Library.
Undergraduate students in introductory Intermedia classes have created works that follow the approach of cinema’s pioneers, Auguste and Louis Lumière.
Video Classrooms are sponsored by Mary K. Calkin
