VIMEO REMIX AWARD WINNER
A video/sound artist whose interdisciplinary activities have included professional activities as a concert musician, exhibiting painter, published writer, theatrical designer, and film producer, Kasumi is one of the leading innovators of a new art form synthesizing film, sound and video in live performance. She has won global acclaim for her work in venues worldwide: from Lincoln Center with The New York Philharmonic to collaborations with Grandmaster Flash and DJ Spooky. She performed at Wuerttembergischen Kunstverein Stuttgart and at the Chroma Festival de Arte Audiovisual in Guadalajara, Mexico. Her work, BREAKDOWN, premiered at Carnegie Hall in concert with the American Composers Orchestra. She was awarded an EMPAC Dance Movies Commission 2009-2010 by the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.
Her film The Free Speech Zone, cited in The Encyclopedia of Underground Movies, was featured at the Nemo Festival at the Forum des Images in Paris, the Milano Film Festival, Expresion en Corto, Mexico City, and the Sapporo International Short Film Festival where it won First Prize. The Stuttgarter Nachricten described her work as "a modern age version of Francesco Goya's Disasters of War”.
Her work has been screened at festivals in Iran, the Slovak Republic, Turkey, Japan, Korea, Romania, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Holland, France, England, the US and Canada, and at distinguished institutions including Muzeul Florean, Romania; Itau Cultural Center, Sao Paulo; The Butler Institute of American Art; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; San Diego Museum of Art; Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires; Anthology Film Archives among others and has received the Adriano Asti Award for Best Experimental Film at Montecacini, Italy; Director's and Program Staff Citation at the Black Maria Film Festival; the Seoul Film Festival's Special Jury Award; IFP Chicago's Best Experimental Film award and many others.
Five Portraits (Installation) from kasumi on Vimeo.
"Even in recent video-based works Kasumi’s political concerns are not always preeminent. Often an examination of the distance between emotional expression and communicative ambiguities (especially within the closed circuit of self-perception) is a more central subject. This is notably true in montages produced between 2001-2005 where she makes provocative use of texture and gesture and where her training as a painter is evident. One idea she explores is that the construction of identity through gesture may sometimes amount to a betrayal of self. Such concerns cast the whole project of expressive art in a suspicious light. There is a paranoid tendency latent in montage, a secret belief that any personal expression reveals an effective method of manipulation, of interrogation. From this point of view every true self-portrait is a kind of suicide, or martyrdom.
In the installation Five Portraits in Five Minutes (2005), Kasumi’s cast of characters here are, in order: a young man, raising and lowering his face, a child, an old man in a cap, a young woman in a 1930’s-era bathing suit, dancing with arms out-stretched, and another young man, filmed in very tight close-up. Two of the men are double, either literally beside themselves, like the man with the cap, or the one who faces himself, melting and separating as if reflected in two halves of a mirror. Many viewings are needed to perceive all, or even most, of the constituent images in Five Portraits, flickering as each frame blends into the next. In fact Kasumi has set her characters ablaze, shimmering and flaring amid arcs of penumbral light. These are portraits, but portraits executed in the medium of time – recursive images which evolve and repeat. They capitalize on the swift passage of multiple views, ranging in subject from the formal shifts of the angling of facial planes to the psychological implication of a given posture.
Viewers may recognize the young woman as Hitler’s lover Eva Braun. Her expression appears to shift between pleasure and terror and her extended arms are like wings in flight, outspread as if to offer an embrace, but also evoking the iconography of crucifixion."
Text by Douglas Max Utter
MO-SO excerpt from kasumi on Vimeo.
A three-channel videoart installation (short excerpt)
Videoart=Kasumi
Music, Deluge=Fang Man
Dance=Chan U Hong
Memories of a Dead Princess from kasumi on Vimeo.
mémoires d'une princesse morte
Gedächtnisse einer toten Prinzessin
memorias de una princesa muerta
memorie di una principessa guasto
Experimental film/video art/dance
TRT: 5”
Premiere: Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, 2005
Original production format: DV and painted 16mm celluloid
Camera: Kitao Sakurai
Ballet: Valerie Madonia
Synopsis: This expressionistic dance piece originally appeared in a production of l’Histoire du Soldat with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center, Pinchas Zuckerman, violinist. Presented here, it has been re-cut to original music.
Transmissions from kasumi on Vimeo.
People reveal themselves in small gestures and fleeting facial expressions that, no matter how deliberate, self-aware or artificial, are invested by the person performing them with an element of totally unconscious feeling. I created “transmissions” to capture these tiny revelations and explore their meanings, translating them into a metaphorical language synthesized from all forms of artistic expression: image, movement, music, shape, light and composition. The point is to illuminate the mysteries of human thought and behavior on their own terms -- viscerally, instinctually – and to trigger viewers’ similarly unconscious feelings through their powers of perception and association
BREAKDOWN the video **2010 VIMEO AWARDS REMIX WINNER** from kasumi on Vimeo.
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BREAKDOWN, a mashup of thousands of public domain samples, is the ageless tale of corrupt power-seekers perpetrating hideous deceptions on gullible masses.
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