Syndicate: ARTLAB Exhibition

[yshikata@crpg.canon.co.jp (Yukiko Shikata)]

Canon's ARTLAB presents "LOVERS" by Teiji Furuhashi and "frost frames" by
Shiro Takatani

ARTLAB holds an exhibition from May 10 to 21, 1998 at SPIRAL, Tokyo,
consisting of "LOVERS," 1994 collaborative work by artist Teiji Furuhashi
with ARTLAB, and a new work by Shiro Takatani, leading member of the art
group Dumb Type.

After shown at ARTLAB4(1994), "LOVERS" has been invited and shown at 11
venues in 7 countries in U.S. and Europe from 1995 to 1997, starting from
"Video Spaces" at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). "LOVERS" to be
shown this time is its international version, renovated from the original
version, for the first time in Japan.

Furuhashi was the leading member of Dumb Type, and gave numerous
outstanding performances and installations before he passed away three
years ago. LOVERS is his first full-scale solo and posthumous work at the
same time. Since there were many requests to exhibit the work again, ARTLAB
planned a special exhibition to show the installation along with a new
video installation by Shiro Takatani, who is one of the collaborators in
the production of LOVERS.

The theme of LOVERS is a relationship of love, generated along the borders,
for example, between humans, human and body, and humans and information. In
the work, filmed images of life-size humans appear in a dim space. The
movements of visitors in the space are perceived by sensors and affect the
course of movement of the images. On the other hand, "frost frames,"
depicts a world where the contrast of projected images mutually turn
"whiteout."

<ARTLAB Exhibition "LOVERS"(Teiji Furuhashi) / "frost frames"(Shiro Takatani)>
date: May 10 - 21, 1998   11:00-20:00
location: SPIRAL, Tokyo(5-6-23 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo)
*free of charge

Organized by Canon ARTLAB
cooperation: Wacoal Art Center


Artists' Profile:

<Teiji Furuhashi>
Born in 1960. Graduated from Art Dept.of Kyoto University of Arts. Created
films, music, performances, and experimented with various ways of
expressions. In 1984, formed a multi-media art group Dumb Type in Kyoto,
and created works in a group in the form of performance and installation,
etc. Furuhashi showed his solo work "LOVERS" in 1994 when Dumb Type
performed "S/N." In the autumn of 1995, died of an infection with HIV.

<Shiro Takatani>
Born in 1963. Graduated from Art Dept. of Kyoto University of Arts. Joined
Dumb Type as one of the founders in 1984, and has been involved especially
in the visual and technical aspects. In his solo activities, Takatani
participated in a municipal project of Groningen, Holland in collaboration
with Akira Asada in 1990. Recently, Takatani created images for the
collaboration concert "Dangerous Visions" with Art Zoyd and the National
Orchestra of Lille in March 1998.

<Dumb Type>
Artists from different genres; visual art, architecture, music and video,
formed a group in Kyoto in 1984. Their activities were originally motivated
by potential of innovative artistic expressions in the post-consumer
society, flexible output and explorations in the production system, and
they developed through different media such as performance, installation,
video and publishing. The group has been active in and outside Japan and is
often engaged in international collaborative projects, such as, with  Hotel
Pro Forma(Denmark) and architects Elizabeth Diller & Ricardo
Scofidio(U.S.).

<venues LOVERS was shown>
1994
-ARTLAB4, Hillside Plaza, Tokyo(original version)
1995(from here with International version)
-"Video Spaces," The Museum of Modern Art, New York
-"Age of Anxiety," Power Plant, Toronto
-Biennale de Lyon, Lyon
1996
-Festival International EXIT, Creteil
-Festival International VIA, Meubeuge
-"SONAR96," Barcelona
-"OBJECT: VIDEO," Linz
1997
-Theater am Turm, Frankfurt
-Marstall Theater, Munchen
-Tramway, Glasgow
-Wood Streeet Galleries, Pittsburgh


Yukiko Shikata
postal address: Canon ARTLAB, 106-0032 Japan
Tel: 81-3-5410-3611 Fax: 3615 http://www.canon.co.jp/cast/
next exhibition by ARTLAB: May 10-21[at Spiral, Tokyo]
"LOVERS"(Teiji Furuhashi)+"frost frames"(Shiro Takatani)