Body and Time: Allegory at Bee Honey Honeycomb
The following text is taken from Front Magazine vol. IV, no. 5, p. 11, May/June 1993: Over the last 20 years, Goji Hamada has refined and elaborated…
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Gorin No Sho, The Memory of the Epidermis
Solo pieces by Haruo Higuma (Gorin No Sho) and Tari Ito (The Memory of the Epidermis). Canadian tour organized by Hank Bull and Zainub Verjee.
1990 du Maurier International Jazz Festival
Co-sponsored with the Coastal Jazz and Blues Society, this year’s festival contained the mini-series, Dial J for Japan, which featured contemporary Japanese musicians. – Junko…
Junko Ueda & Wil Offermans in Concert
Performance by Wil Offermans (flute) and Junko Ueda (biwa, vocals), live at the Western Front. A part of the 1990 edition of the du Maurier International Jazz…
Mary-Lou
Special production. Shot primarily in Japan in 1988, the artist wondered how it was that a culture could be so pure and unified in its…
Infermental VIII: Tokyo Edition, In the Afterglow of TV Land
Screening of the Japanese edition of the magazine on videotape. Editor Alfred Birnbaum in attendance. Material collected under various themes: Infomania, Godzilla, Limboguistics and Future…
Japanese Drums
A concert of Japanese drumming. Due to the high volume of material in the Western Front Archive, further information on this project is currently unavailable.
Artists’ Union Osaka (Japan)
Original Japanese lanterns, paintings, assemblage and installations by sixteen members of the Artists’ Union, coordinated by Hiromi Katayama.
Bodo Yamamoto in Concert
Work is a concert by Bodo Yamamoto (shakuhachi) and other unidentified musicians. Audio Recording duration: 48:38 Digitized audio of this concert is available through the…