Shûsaku Arakawa

Shûsaku Arakawa Trailers

Children Who Won’t Die TrailerLife Extended TrailerN.N. Trailer

Arakawa (Shūsaku Arakawa; b. 1936, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan – d. 2010, New York) was an artist and architect who had a personal and artistic partnership with Madeline Gins that spanned more than four decades. He was one of the founding members of the Japanese avant-garde art collective Neo Dadaism Organizers and exhibited at the Yomiuri Independent exhibition from 1958 to 1961, an annual watershed event for postwar Japanese art. Arakawa arrived in New York in the end of 1961 and quickly rose to fame as one of the earliest practitioners of the international conceptual art movement of the 1960s. He represented Japan in XXXV Venice Biennale (1970) and was included in Documenta IV (1968) and Documenta VI (1977). His work has been shown extensively around the world and is held by numerous museum collections world-wide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

Most Popular Shûsaku Arakawa Trailers

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Children Who Won’t Die Trailer (2013)

30 July 2013

Arakawa has thrown big ripples all over the world with strange works such as the theme park "Site of Reversible Destiny Yoro", the house for not dying "Mitaka Tenmei Reversible House", and the huge cylindrical building "Nagi Ryuanji".

For Example: A Critique of Never Trailer (1971)

01 January 1971

Experimental documentary film, set in the then-present day, about an impoverished, lost boy, living alone in the Bowery.

Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology Trailer (1970)

11 February 1970

Why Not is hypnotic, compulsive and claustrophobic. It is bathed in a cold, pervasive eroticism, which, oblique and displaced at first, finally becomes explicit in one of the most bizarre masturbation sequences ever filmed.

N.N. Trailer (1969)

02 July 1969

The mental crisis of an architect whose reflections on his commission to build a prison lead to the realization that the modern Western world is a single prison.

Life Extended Trailer (2009)

17 March 2009

Life Extended continues Bigert & Bergström’s exploration of the human endeavor to control life and death.