Takahiko Iimura
Observer/Observed
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Original format video
Year 1976-1999
Artist(s) Takahiko Iimura
Running time 45 min
Films
CAMERA, MONITOR, FRAME (1976) 17'
OBSERVER/OBSERVED (1999) 22'
OBSERVER/OBSERVED/OBSERVER (1976) 6'
Description
"In reality, Takahiko Iimura is not really a theoretician, if by that we mean that his theory could exist for itself, separate from the object. On the contrary, the object and the theory mutually activate each other, even interpenetrate without obstacle. One could say in this sense that the logic of Kegon Buddhism, which Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki once taught to John Cage"
— Daniel Charles