Life: the home movie, Japan: the video game
NEW ART SEEN / Japan Times / Wednesday, March 26, 2003
Opera City's concurrent exhibition, Tabaimo's "Odoro Odoro," also features two video installations.
"Japanese Interior" (2002) is an interactive work rather similar to a role-playing video game, in which viewers use a mouse to navigate their way through the rooms of an old Japanese house. The interior and the odd characters encountered were drawn, manga-style, by the artist.
Tabaimo's second piece, "Japanese Bathhouse -- Gents" (2000), is a 7-min. animation presented in a three-screen format ...The climax here occurs when, as traditional gagaku music plays, a couple of sumo wrestler bathers start kissing, one then swallowing the other whole. I was reminded of the sense of the absurd that Monty Python's Terry Gilliam brought to his cartoon collage films.
Tabaimo's "Odoro Odoro" run until June 8 at Tokyo Opera City Gallery, 3-20-2 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; Open 12-8 p.m. (till 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday; closed Monday).
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See also
http://www.bbl.be/forwart/en/About-Tabaimo.htm
http://www.jpf.go.jp/yt2001/cyber/artist/088_Taba/
