Queer Reflections at Peace Gallery

NJAHS invites visitors to examine how we see and remember this Summer in the Peace Gallery, on Now until August 5, Queer Reflections asks about or memories, perceptions and what we see in ourselves an others.

Featuring Midori (美登里) and Tina Kashiwagi the exhibit examines perception and memory.

Two scrolls from Midori’s Evoco Project are artifacts of memory created in originally with an incident, the creation sometimes public often private where guests are asked to enjoy the moment and creation as live performance is transformed into scrolls that represent both the moment, and the memories of that moment.

Tina Kashiwagi’s search for mt. fuji renders abstract what is normally a cliched image of Japanese tourism culture, Mt. Fuji at once iconic of Japan, symbol of the culture of Japanese tourism and its shifting of the rest of Japanese culture.  In this video piece Kashiwagi uses the technology through which we now consume culture to render distorted one of the most recognizable landscapes on the planet, and asks us what are we actually looking at?