Tatsuo Okada Explained
| Tatsuo Okada |
| Native Name: | 岡田 竜夫 |
| Birth Date: | 1900 |
| Death Date: | 1937 |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Known For: | Graphic design and topography, performance art |
| Style: | Experimental |
| Movement: | Mavo |
(1900–1937) was a Japanese avant garde artist, illustrator, graphic designer, typographer editor and a member of the radical Japanese performance group Mavo.[1] [2]
Work
Okada is known for his Dada-like performances and for his 1925 installation, Gate and Moving Ticket-Selling Machine, that was exhibited at the Second Sanka Exhibition at the Jichi Kaikan, in Tokyo's Ueno Park.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
The installation was part of the Mavo collective's work in the show, and took the form of a peripatetic ticket selling machine-like contraption that was located outside the near the Sanka Tower gate to the exhibition venue. Okada or another performer would periodically pedal it through the exhibit hall while playing music.
Okada explained to the press that the operator inside, who was "perhaps naked", would extend a black-gloved hand pretending to sell tickets. The gizmo was designed such that it had several orientations, sideways or upright. The absurd mechanical contraption had signage that read, "entrance" "Mavo" "ticket selling place" and "exit". There were Mavo magazines for sale that were stacked on shelves on the sides.[8] [9]
Notes and References
- Weisenfeld . Gennifer . Mavo's Conscious Constructivism: Art, Individualism, and Daily Life in Interwar Japan . Art Journal . Autumn 1996 . 55 . 3 . 31 July 2020.
- Web site: Gopnik . Blake . Was Japanese Dada Even Tougher Than Its European Versions? . ArtNet News . 31 July 2020.
- Book: Weisenfeld . Gennifer . Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde 1905–1931 . 2002 . University of California Press . Berkeley . 0520223381.
- Failing . Patricia . Review: Gennifer Weisenfeld's Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde 1905–1931 . CAA Reviews . 10.3202/caa.reviews.2002.80 . 31 July 2020. free .
- Maerkle . Andrew . Heads Above Water: The anarchic 1920s Tokyo art movement Mavo and the internationalism of the Japanese Avant-garde . Frieze . October 2014 . 31 July 2020.
- Web site: 1923 Action, Mavo, Futurismo, DVL... . Asakusa-o. 31 July 2020.
- Book: Eckersall. Peter. Rouse. John. Harding. James M.. From liminality to ideology: the politics of embodiment in prewar avant-garde theatre in Japan. Not the Other Avant-Garde: The Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance. 2006 . University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor . 225–249 . 31 July 2020.
- Book: Weisenfeld . Gennifer . The Expanding Arts of the Interwar Period. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780824861025-005/html. Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000. 2011 . University of Hawaii Press . Honolulu . 978-0-8248-6102-5 . 66–98 . j.ctt6wqh84.7.
- News: "Kippu uriba ni nyutto kuroi te" .
