Artist Statement

Mediaselect programme

1983, 10′, colour

• Tsuneo Nakai was born in Osaka (Japan) in 1947. As a student at Tokyo University of the Arts he made his first work The Skin of a Napping (1967), which was selected for the Sogetsu Experimental Film Festival organized by the Sogetsu Art Center. His second film, Paludes (1968) won an Encouragement Prize at Film Art Festival 1968 Tokyo. In 1986 he became Assistant Professor of Conceptual Design at Kyoto City University of Arts. Since then the focus of his practice has been video installations and video objects such as New World (1986).  https://www.collabjapan.org/tsuneo-nakai