Shimabuku
How do you accept something you don’t understand?, 2006/2008
Video installation from DVD, colour, sound, vinyl wall text
5 minutes, 8 seconds, Installation dimensions variable
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
In his video How do you accept something you don’t understand? (2006/2008) Shimabuku had a group of German student memorize and sing a Japanese song that to them was incomprehensible....
In his video How do you accept something you don’t understand? (2006/2008) Shimabuku had a group of German student memorize and sing a Japanese song that to them was incomprehensible. The aim was for the students to practice accepting things they don’t understand, without understanding them.
Exhibitions
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 24 July - 15 September 2013