Full Description
Intermedia art—an avant-garde multimedia practice that combines sound and moving images-took root in Japan alongside other places in the 1960s. In Transpacific Experiments, Miki Kaneda analyzes intermedia as a practice that gives form to errant possibilities, unfolding in spaces of the everyday, to offer nuanced insights into the global flow of ideas, influence, and discourses of appropriation. The stories of intermedia art throughout the study offer feminist and transnational perspectives on experimental music and art that disorient existing narratives about the experimental and political in unexpected ways.
Transpacific Experiments contends that social, cultural, and political arrangements local to Japan had a greater influence on the transnational experimental music scene than previously acknowledged. Her perspective extends, exceeds, and at times unsettles these frameworks about experimental practices, revealing the limitations of any single political or aesthetic lens.
Contents
About the Cover Image
Note on Names and Language
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue - The John Cage Shock was a Fiction: The 1960s Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Music as a Transnational Practice
Introduction - The Inappropriate Avant-Garde: Intermedia in 1960s Japan
Chapter 1 - The Sogetsu Art Center: The ba of the Mundane Archive
Chapter 2 - Archival Absences and Conditional Listening: How Jazz Shaped Experimental Music in 1960s Japan
Chapter 3 - Cross Talk Intermedia: The Aesthetics of Miscommunication, and Cultural Diplomacy
Chapter 4 - Expo'70: The Pinnacle or Intermedia, or, the Avant-Garde Faces Some Conundrums
Chapter 5 - Talismans and Relics: Intermedia EXPO in the 21st Century
Coda: Imagining a Transpacific Avant-Garde, of the sea
Notes
Bibliography
Index
