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  Yasunori Ikunishi
World Wide Revisited
  Japan/Netherlands 2000
performance
 
Ikunishi, together with a musician or DJ, will create a live audio-visual performance from 18 years of archive material of the World Wide Video Festival.

What do you find so fascinating about video?
Video makes a strong and rapid impression and has a more powerful appeal than music or writing. For instance, it is said that flashing strobe light and sound signals can influence the senses or consciousness by tempo and strength. In any case it makes a deeper impression on the audience when visual images and sound are combined. I am attracted, both as an artist and as a 'consumer', to works that stimulate and broaden the imagination. In that sense they don't have to be moving images. Strong and rapid expression is interesting, but that doesn't mean that only that kind of work is good. For instance, an expression that is only text or sound and lacks visual information, could very well present the audience with a stronger image. At a fashion show I produced I installed 8 video projectors to surround the audience because I wanted to draw the audience into this world I had created. I don't know what can be included in the realm of visual expression. The visual artist/musician Tony Conrad already made works with noise and flicker of light in 1965. The audience starts to see things after watching the empty screen for a long time. There was also somebody who painted the after image. It's interesting to define visual expression in that wide sense of stimulation through vision. For me, the fascination of the moving image is its intensity and speed. As a VJ I'm also fascinated by the idea of collage, which is not only putting moving images together but moving images and music as well. I don't mind whether it is original or not. I simply create a new original image which is not present in the existing images. I also work with a musician, KUKNACKE, as a unit called FAST VIDEO where we improvise with sound and the moving images on an equal basis.
Yasunori Ikunishi, 1968, Tokio (Japan)
Lives and works in Tokio (Japan)

– Nov Amenomori


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