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Shigeko Kubota: An Interview

Video Data Bank

1983 00:22:00 United StatesEnglishColor4:3Video
Tags:
Film or Videomaking, Installation, Interview, VDB Interviews

Description

For Shigeko Kubota the video image-making process is a cultural and personal experience. She has explored cross-cultural relationships in her video diaries, transient images captured by portable equipment while traveling—Kubota’s “comparative videology.” She has also combined fleeting video images with the “objecthood” of sculptural form in her series of video sculptures inspired by Duchamp.

“I’m a sculptor,” Kubota says in this interview with Jeanine Mellinger. “I want to make video, but I also want to make objects. The video part is my mirror for my memory, or my life, but the object is creating my creation.”

A historical interview originally recorded in 1983.

The Video Data Bank is the leading resource in the United States for videotapes by and about contemporary artists. The VDB collection features innovative video work made by artists from an aesthetic, political or personal point of view. The collection includes seminal works that, seen as a whole, describe the development of video as an art form originating in the late 1960's and continuing to the present. Works in the collection employ innovative uses of form and technology, mixed with original visual style to address contemporary art and cultural themes.

Founded in 1976 at the inception of the media arts movement in the United States, the Video Data Bank is one of the nation's largest providers of alternative and art-based video. Through a successful national and international distribution service, the VDB distributes video art, documentaries made by artists, and recorded interviews with visual artists, photographers and critics.