Being more and more recognized by the artistic institutions, the videoinstallation uses the electronic image technology as a basis to develop a contemporary art. The relationship between viewer and monitor changes in a given videoinstallation, as the 2-D image moves out of its plane and expands towards the outer space in order to bring up time and motion to the scenery. The presentation of the 11 videoinstallations, quite diversified among themselves, show the broad possibilities about what could be made and is a unique opportunity to know the work of internationally-renowned artists.
The videoinstallation Separeted at Birth, by Bruce Yonemoto, was composed by two video channels that bring together two marginal cultural representations. One created in Brazil, and another that was created simultaneously in the United States.
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Statement Bruce Yonemoto, 1994
Separated at Birth
Separated at Birth is a 2 channel videoinstallation which brings together two marginal cultural representations. One historical representation was created in Brazil, while the other was simultaneously created in the USA. While the films were produced entirely independent of each other, what the moving images share are the memories of those with a common japanese ancestry. Because of geographic, language, and political barriers, these parallel histories have never shared a true communication. The installation is a dramatic reunion of two personal histories separated at birth… nipo-brasilian and japonese-American.
The installation consists of two monitors which are housed in two lacquer tube shaped boxes (which encase and obscure the video screens). On the monitors show archival film material transferred to videotape of “home movies” made by the nipo-brazilian and the japonese-american during the 1920’s-30’s. People enter a room illuminated only by the light from the monitors. There is only one position from which one can see the two encased monitors simultaneously.
Viewers seat at a height of approximately 3 feet, (the level at which all important communication in Japan is conducted according to the film director Yasujiro Ozu). The interior of the lacquer boxes illuminated by the televised light is on the traditional orange-red color while the exterior of the boxes are black… the black becoming a symbolic extension of the darkness of the room.
ASSOCIAÇÃO CULTURAL VIDEOBRASIL. "10º Videobrasil: Festival Internacional de Arte Eletrônica": de 20 a 25 de novembro de 1994, São Paulo-SP, 1994.