![]() ![]() ![]() Derived from the diversity of its members and the different media employed by the group, Dumb Type’s works range from art exhibitions to performances and live music concerts. The exhibition and included artworks may be subject to change.įounded in Kyoto in 1984, Dumb Type is composed of artists from diverse backgrounds - dance, theater, music, video, design, architecture, programming - all contributing to a great variety of stage and installation productions over the years. * Small modifications are scheduled to take place during the exhibition period. (publisher: Kawade Shobo Shinsha / ¥3,000 Languages: Japanese-English bilingual Date of Issue: December 2019) An illustrated catalogue with many photographs of the group’s artworks will be published in conjunction with this exhibition. The exhibition presents an extensive archive created with the help of researchers, former and current members that will offer a comprehensive overlook Dumb Type’s creativity and its message – preceding the advent of the internet age – both before and after the death of founding member Teiji Furuhashi. With works such as Playback, (based on Pleasure Life, performed during Teiji Furuhashi’s lifetime) the piece pH, a massive recreation of the same-titled installation work from Dumb Type’s early period LOVE/SEX/DEATH/MONEY/LIFE, based on the play S/N and the exhibition “The Human Condition” from 1994 Teiji Furuhashi’s LOVERS (2001/second edition) (exhibited until 19 January, 2020) as well as MEMORANDUM OR VOYAGE, which reconstructs three performances created after Furuhashi’s death, this exhibition offers an incredible spatial experience with exceptional sound design.ģ An overwhelming spatial experience full of character Coinciding with the 35th anniversary of Dumb Type’s foundation, this exhibition provides an invaluable opportunity for audiences in Japan to experience six of the group’s large-sale installations as part of a show.Ģ An overwhelming spatial experience full of character The exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo constitutes an upgraded version of the critically acclaimed Dumb Type solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz (2018), featuring additional new works and access to the Dumb Type performance archives. 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.īased 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.įeaturing several large-scale installations, this comprehensive exhibition offers an invaluable introduction to the works and artistic activities of Dumb Type, a group whose unique vision lives on after Teiji Furuhashi’s death thanks to newly joined members and veterans like Shiro Takatani or Ryoji Ikeda, and which continues to influence young artists throughout the world.ġ Critically acclaimed solo exhibition updated with new works 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. The exhibition, which marks the 35th anniversary of the group’s formation, will feature an updated version of the 2018 exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz (curated by Yuko Hasegawa) with several new works as well as an extensive archive of the group’s past performances.įounded 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. ![]() ![]() The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is delighted to announce the upcoming solo exhibition “Actions + Reflections” by leading Japanese media artist collective Dumb Type. ![]()
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