Preparatory Office for Takahiko IIMURA Archiving
about Preparatory Office for Takahiko IIMURA Archiving
Preparatory Office for Takahiko IIMURA Archiving is archiving his experimental film, video art, performance, instllation and other materials or writings of Taka Iimura who passed away in 2022. Our task is to digitalize and preserve Iimura’s works to realize onward researching and inspection of media art in Japan after world war II.
Takahiko Iimura (1937-2022)
Iimura (b.1937, Tokyo, d.2022) is an artist and filmmaker who started individually creating avant-garde film pieces by 8mm and 16mm film in 1960s. He organized an experimental film group, “Film Independent” in 1964 and the group held independent film festivals. His film piece Love (1962) was rated high by Jonas Mekas in New York, and Iimura toured his film shows in Europe. In early 1970’s he began to create video tapes, after that his activities opened widely and globally with his installation and performance pieces. He won Special Achievement Award in Japan Media Arts Festival in 2015. He took part in Art Basel Hong Kong 2018 in his lifetime, and his activities were introduced in Films by Takahiko Iimura, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2023, Time Tunnel: Takahiko Iimura, 18. April 1973, Berlin International Film Festival, Kino Arsenal Berlin, 2023, Video Field, MORI YU Gallery, Kyoto, 2023,etc. after his death.
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JAPAN ART REVOLUTION The Japanese Avant-Garde, from Angura to Provoke 1960 -1979 Featuring over 600 artworks by Moriyama Daido, Hosoe Eikō, Araki Nobuyoshi, Ishiuchi Miyako, Yokoo Tadanori, Terayama Shūji, Provoke, Hijikata Tatsumi, Ohno Kazuo, Awazu Kiyoshi, Watanabe Hitomi, Saeki Toshio, Kawada Kikuji. Created by Amélie Ravalec Published by Thames & Hudson
4月のEMAFに続き、ロッテルダムで飯村隆彦の「シェルター9999」の再現パフォーマンスが行われました。
June 14- August 9 2024, Philadelphia Art Alliance of the University of the Arts curated by Collaborative Cataloging Japan (CCJ)
Japan Art Revolution_1960-1979
JAPAN ART REVOLUTION The Japanese Avant-Garde,
Created by Amélie Ravalec Published by Thames & Hudson 25 September 2025 £40 hardback
On the page introducing Butoh, images from Takahiko Iimura’s film works are featured.
Back to the Future Festival@WORM Rotterdam
Following its presentation at EMAF in April, a restaged performance of Takahiko Iimura’s Shelter 9999 was held in Rotterdam. Originally created in collaboration with Alvin Lucier, the work combines slide-projected images of 1960s New York nightlife with hole-punched 16mm film to imagine the underground spaces of a distant future. The reconstruction by LaborBerlin and Collaborative Cataloging Japan (CCJ) reactivated the spirit of Expanded Cinema, transforming the act of projection itself into a spatial and immersive experience.
4月のEMAFに続き、ロッテルダムで飯村隆彦の「シェルター9999」の再現パフォーマンスが行われました。同作はアルヴィン・ルシエとの共同制作で、1960年代ニューヨークの夜景と穴の開いた16mmフィルムを組み合わせ、未来の地下空間を想像した実験作として制作されました。LaborBerlinとCCJによる再構成は、映写空間そのものを体験化する拡張映画の再現となりました。
Kuzu JUNK(1963)screening in ARTOSAKA2025
Screening Program To Be Being Seen: Exploring Artistic Expression in Moving Image Works from the 1960s to Today in Japan
2025 6.6 Fri ─ 6.8 Sun
OSAKA CITY CENTRAL PUBLIC HALL 1st Floor
Admission Free
Program Curation: Umezu Gen (critic and curator) Planning Support: Ishida Katsuya (MEM)
24 Frames Per Second(1975)screening in M+, Hong Kong
Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival 2025: Time Will Tell
program TimeKeepers
31 May 2025, 14:00–14:47
M+, Hong Kong
Japanese Moving Image Artists in the US, 1960s-1970s
June 14- August 9 2024, Philadelphia Art Alliance of the University of the Arts
curated by Collaborative Cataloging Japan (CCJ)
7月21日〜23日 成城学園、アトリエ第Q芸術
「あんま」1963 「バラ色ダンス」1965 上映
March 4-26, 2023
MORI YU Gallery （京都）で開催される飯村隆彦の回顧展にて、当該アーカイヴ事業より展示用動画を提供します。
Berlin International Film Festival2023 Takahiko iimura@Kino Arsenal, Forum Expanded
15-26 Feb. 2023年
Forum Expanded 2023by Asenal
reported by Julian Ross
恵比寿映像祭2023 東京都写真美術館2023年2月3日ー19日
飯村隆彦特集の上映は2月4日・7日・15日
写真美術館に寄贈されたフィルム作品とVCTビデオアートセンター東京がデジタル・アーカイヴ化したヴィデオ作品から上映されます。
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia
January 13 – March 18 2023 at Artists Space, N.Y.
ニューヨークのアーティスツ・スペースで開催される刀根康尚の展覧会関連企画で上映される刀根作品《2,880K=120” 》を当該アーカイヴ作業から提供しました。
Yeary repport
We compiled Iimura’s video works as Catalogue raisonné. Title lists are also referred on this web site. Click following PDF file.(details are here.)
Takahiko IIMURA Video Field Video Tapes Catalog
A4 、 36P、color / year of production:March 2023
fee: 1650 yen, Japanese./ English
We provide you Catalogue raisonné of Taka Iimura’s video art works. Through our operation of archiving on his pieces, we found over 60 pieces and details of his life works on video since 1970. Contributed by Masayuki Kawai, Kentaro Taki, Yuichi Mori(MORI YU GALLERY). You can buy it on this web site.
Archive list in 2022-2023
Archive list in 2023-2024
Archive list in 2024-2025
Supported by Agency of Cultural Affairs , Government of Japan(2022)
