Aki Sasamoto: An Artist Walks into a Bar | Art21 "New York Close Up"
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- What happens when an artist gives up control?
Mirroring its subject's own playful and absurdist sensibility, this portrait of sculptor and performance artist Aki Sasamoto is a fluid hybrid of fiction and documentary-at once a magical realist world of spinning objects and a psychological exploration of fundamental questions about artistic creativity.
Drinking and bar culture has long served as a source of inspiration for the artist. With a real-world Brooklyn bar as the main stage for her deadpan performance style, a bartender acts as a sympathetic ear for Sasamoto's ruminations on past projects and recent motherhood. Embellished by CGI-style effects, the artist toggles between impromptu conversations and scripted performances, blurring the line between observable fact and subjective vision.
From firing whiskey glasses at Urban Glass in Brooklyn to installing her exhibition, "Past in a future tense," at Bortolami Gallery in Manhattan, Sasamoto grapples with the tension between control and chaos-between her mastery over materials and their own will. "Whatever I thought I had control over, whatever I thought I was," explains Sasamoto, "will change in front of me and that to me is exciting, in life and in sculpture."
Aki Sasamoto (b. 1980, Kanagawa, Japan) lives and works in New York. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/arti...
CREDITS | Featuring: Aki Sasamoto, Ray Ekwurtzel-Sasamoto, Pau Atela, Romina Gonzales, and Anna Peterson. "New York Close Up" Series Producer: Nick Ravich. Directors: Rafael Salazar and Ava Wiland. Producer: Ava Wiland. Editor: Rafael Salazar. Cinematography: Jon Nelson and Rafael Salazar. Digital Compositor: Luis M. Pla. Associate Producer: Julia Main. Location Sound: Nikola Chapelle. Gaffer: Jacob Mallin. Production Services: RAVA Films: Color Correction: Jerome Thelia. Sound Design & Mix: Adam Boese. Design & Graphics: Chips. Music: Matt Bauder. Artwork Courtesy: Aki Sasamoto. Thanks: Jason Bauer, Bortolami Gallery, James Corporan, Cut + Measure, Sam Ekwurtzel, Eugene & Company, Gilberto Gil, Romina Gonzales, Ben Hagari, Anna Peterson, UrbanGlass, and Russell Yaffe. © Art21, Inc. 2019. All rights reserved.
"New York Close Up" is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts; and, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by individual contributors.
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shes no nonsense about her nonsense , its spectacular
When he gave her the ice pick I got nervous
Yo same!!! Holy shit dude!
Me too. You weren't the only one.
wonderful, editing, story, person
"What do you wanna be when you're dead?"
I think often about this video.
Fun performance art.
I liked this. I'm surprised. It didn't turn into the usual pretentious and self indulgent baloney. Much of the art world is narcissistic C R A P,..... I don't think this was.
nice
Superb
chocado com toda essa poesia, muito boa!
I'm looking forward to Sasamoto's further reflections on the sacrifices involved in motherhood... if she finds the time.
Gostei de ver as criações dela,Parabens pelo trabalho👌😍🌺
Tremendous!
She’s great.
Dope
I love this.
Much better than 95% of so-called modern "artists"
Astounding
👍👍👍
This is wonderful.
OE NO PE"
🤯