Theory of Everything
June 21, 2006
Screening of
“Theory of Everything”
An exhibition featuring videos by 10 Japanese artists
Curated by Location One resident artist Yuki Okumura.
The screening will be followed by a discussion between the artist and Nathalie Anglès, Residency Program director.
THEORY OF EVERYTHING
curated by Yuki Okumura
Hiroaki Morita
Daisuke Nagatsuka
Ken Sasaki
Daisuke Nagatsuka
Yuki Okumura
Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi
Koki Tanaka
Taro Izumi
Koki Tanaka
Kohei Kobayashi
Koki Tanaka
Naho Yokoya
Daisuke Nose
Artist, writer and curator Yuki Okumura was born in Aomori, Japan in 1978 and currently working in NYC as an artist in residence at Location One. He graduated from Tama Art University and received an M.F.A at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (2004). In 2000, he was awarded the Grand Prix, Philip Morris Asian Art Award. Since then, he has shown his work both domestically and internationally. Okumura also organizes exhibitions, and writes essays and reviews which present a critical perspective on his generation of artists. His new video pieces are featured in the current group show at Location One gallery.
The video screening program “Theory of Everything” features video pieces of 10 Japanese emerging artists including himself. The video pieces mostly are very simple and humorous without any narrative or message, featuring everyday things such as sneakers, balloon, baseball bat, TV monitor, and so on, and documenting physical phenomena those things generate or editing their movements with simple effects, to illuminate the fundamental laws of this physical world/universe. The artists were born from 1972 to 1980 and most of them are based in Tokyo, except Koki Tanaka, currently an artist in residence at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi, in residence at Artist Atelier Uster, Uster and Okumura himself.