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Sogetsu Art Center

Sites, Networks, and Individuals, Past and Present

By Doryun Chong

A veritable epicenter of avant-garde artistic experimentation in Tokyo in the 1960s, the Sogetsu Art Center was a remarkable phenomenon that remains understudied. From its inception, the Center’s theater, housed in a building in Tokyo’s Akasaka district designed by the leading architect Tange Kenzo, hosted an exciting,...

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A Very Brief History of the Sogetsu Art Center

The Sogetsu Art Center (SAC) in Tokyo was a major hub for avant-garde activities between 1958 and 1971, a period of concentrated energy for the experimental arts in Japan. Read more »
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Film Festivals and Screenings at the Sogetsu Art Center

It is impossible to consider the art created in Japan during the socially and politically tumultuous 1960s without factoring in the role of the spaces or sites where that art was exhibited. Not... Read more »
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Interview with Shiomi Mieko

On October 28, 2011, Shiomi Mieko, artist, composer, and... Read more »

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The “John Cage Shock” Is a Fiction! Interview with Tone Yasunao, 1

Tone Yasunao has been embracing contradictions and challenging the limits of the possible since his days as a college student in Tokyo, when he performed in an antimusic ensemble that he named... Read more »
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Experimental Music at the Sogetsu Art Center

By Miki Kaneda
Pushing the boundaries of the meaning of music and... Read more »
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Yokoo Tadanori and the Sogetsu Art Center

The psychedelic and darkly fantastic posters of Yokoo... Read more »
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The Three-Person Animation Manifesto: Toward the Creation of New Images

By Kuri Yoji, Manabe Hiroshi, and Yanagihara Ryohei
HISTORICAL DOCUMENT: Originally published in Sogetsu Art... Read more »
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A Sedimentation of the Archival Mind, 1

Beyond identity and difference there is the realm of the... Read more »
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The Current Status of John Cage

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Contemporary Music and Performance

HISTORICAL DOCUMENT: Originally published in Sogetsu Art... Read more »