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Consuming Bodies Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art Edited by Fran Lloyd Consuming Bodies Consuming Bodies Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art EDITED BY FRAN LLOYD REAKTION BOOKS PublishedbyReaktionBooksLtd 79FarringdonRoad,Londonec1m3ju,uk www.reaktionbooks.co.uk Firstpublished2002 Copyright©ReaktionBooksLtd2002 Thepublishersandeditorgratefullyacknowledgesupport forthepublicationofthisbookby thefollowing: TheJapanFoundationEndowmentCommittee Allrightsreserved Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inany formorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying, recordingorotherwise,withoutthe priorpermissionofthepublishers. PrintedandboundinHongKong BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Lloyd,Fran Consumingbodies:sexandcontemporaryJapaneseart 1.Art,Japanese–20thcentury2.Art,Japanese–21stcentury3.Sexinart 4.Consumption(Economics)inart I.Title 704.9’428’0952’0904 isbn1861891474 Contents ListofContributors 6 Introduction:CriticalReflections FranLloyd 9 1 SexandConsumerisminEdoJapan TimonScreech 23 2 SexandConsumerism:theJapaneseStateoftheArts NicholasBornoff 41 3 StrategicInterventionsinContemporaryJapaneseArt FranLloyd 69 4 ‘MadeinOccupiedJapan’–Performance BuBuandYoshikoShimada 109 5 Post-identityKawaii:Commerce,GenderandContemporaryJapaneseArt 127 YukoHasegawa 6 ThePlaceofMarginalPositionality:LegaciesofJapaneseAnti-Modernity 142 MidoriMatsui 7 Tokyo’sUrbanandSexualTransformations:PerformanceArt 166 andDigitalCultures StephenBarber Afterword:JapanesePopCultureandtheEradicationofHistory 186 YoshikoShimada BuBu’sDiary 192 References 198 GlossaryofJapaneseTerms 209 Bibliography 211 PhotographicAcknowledgements 217 Index 219 List of Contributors STEPHEN BARBER is the author of Extreme Europe (2001), Tokyo Vertigo (2001), Edmund White: The Burning World (1999), The Screaming Body (1998), Wahrnehmung/Perception(withRomenBanerjee,1997),WeaponsofLiberation(1996), Fragments of the European City (1995), X-Position (with Romen Banerjee, 1994) and AntoninArtaud:BlowsandBombs(1993).Hehasalsowrittenmanyessaysforsuch publicationsasArtforumInternational,ArtinAmericaandFlashArtInternational.He iscurrentlyaresearchfellowattheEuropeanResearchCentre,KingstonUniversity, London,andwaspreviouslyavisitingprofessorattheUniversityofTokyo. NICHOLASBORNOFFisafreelanceresearcher,writerandlectureronJapanesecon- temporaryculture,nowbasedinLondon.LivinginJapanforoverelevenyearsasa filmcriticfortheJapanTimesandasajournalist,hehaswrittenextensivelyoncon- temporary Japanese culture and society. Author of Pink Samurai (1991) and the NationalGeographicTravellerseriesguidebooktoJapan(2001),heisaregularcon- tributortoTheFacemagazineaswellastoTheIndependentandTheGuardian. BUBUisaperformanceartistbasedinKyoto.Amemberofthehighlyinfluentialper- formance group Dumb Type, she is also a member of The Biters, a performance groupmadeupofpractisingsexworkers.Promotersofsafesexsincetheirformation in1993,theyarealsointernationalAIDSactivists.Since1998BuBuhasworkedona seriesofcollaborationswiththeTokyo-basedartistYoshikoShimada. YUKOHASEGAWAisthechiefcuratorofthe21stCenturyMuseumofContemporary S E DI Art in Kanazawa, which opens in 2004. A board member of the International O B CommitteeforMuseumsandCollectionsofModernArt,shewasappointedArtistic G N MI DirectoroftheSeventhInternationalIstanbulBiennale,2001.Shehascuratedseveral U S N O C | 6 internationalexhibitions,includingDe-Genderism–détruiredit-elle/ilattheSetagaya ArtMuseum(1997),FancyDance,ashowofthirteencontemporaryJapaneseartists atSonjeArtMuseum,Kyonju,andSonjeArtCenter,Seoul(1999),andShirinNeshat (Kanazawa).HasegawaalsoteachesarthistoryatTokyoNationalUniversityofFine Arts and Music and has written for various international publications, including FlashArtInternational. FRAN LLOYD is Head of the School of Art and Design History at Kingston University,London,andhaspublishedwidelyoncontemporaryvisualculture.Her publicationsinclude:ContemporaryArabWomen’sArt:DialoguesofthePresent(1999); Secret Spaces, Forbidden Places: Re-thinking Culture (co-editor, 2000); and Displacement and Difference: Contemporary Arab Visual Culture in the Diaspora (2000). She has contributed to various publications, including Journal of Visual CultureinBritainandFeministVisualCulture:AnIntroduction(2000),aswellasSex andConsumerism:ContemporaryArtinJapan(2001). MIDORI MATSUI, a Tokyo-based art critic and Associate Professor of American StudiesatTohokuUniversity,haspublishedwidelyoncontemporaryart.Herrecent publications include ‘Towards a Definition of Tokyo Pop: The Classical Transgressions of Takashi Murakami’, in Takashi Murakami: The Meaning of the NonsenseoftheMeaning(2000),and‘ConversationDays:NewJapaneseArtin1991 and1995’,inPublicOfferings,ed.HowardSingerman(2001). TIMONSCREECHisSeniorLecturerintheHistoryofJapaneseArtattheSchoolof OrientalandAfricanStudies(SOAS),UniversityofLondon,andSeniorAssociateat theSainsburyInstitutefortheStudyofJapaneseArtsandCultures.Heisanexpert onthevisualcultureoftheEdoperiodandtheauthorofsixbooks,mostofwhich haveappearedinbothJapaneseandEnglish.RecentlyhehaspublishedSexandthe FloatingWorld(1999)andTheShogun’sPaintedCulture(2000). YOSHIKOSHIMADA, aTokyo-basedartist, haslivedandworkedinLosAngeles, BerlinandNewYorkinrecentyears.HerworkhasbeenextensivelyshownintheUS, Europe and Asia. Her recent group shows include A Window Inside/Outside (KwangjuCityMuseumofArt,Korea,1999),YumenoAto(HausamWaldsee,Berlin, and Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2000), Dark Mirrors from Japan (De Appel, S R Amsterdam, 2000), and The Spirits Play, in collaboration with Theatre Works in E T U Singapore(2000). B RI T N O C F O T S LI | 7 S E DI O B G N MI U S N O C | 8
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