Norio Imai at M+ Museum, Hong Kong
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Norio Imai at the Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival 2025
30 May – 1 June, 2025 at M+ Museum, Hong Kong
After the dissolution of the Gutai Group in 1972, Norio Imai’s interest in the moving image deepened, and he became one of the pioneers of video art in Japan. Imai’s Time Clothing (1978) will be featured in the second edition of Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival, supported by CHANNEL. It is a vibrant three-day celebration of the many diverse independent moving image practices that have shaped Asia's artistic landscape over the past six decades. Through screenings, exhibitions, performances, talks, workshops, and live acts, it celebrates the rich history of interdisciplinary moving image practice through the M+ lens of visual culture.
Under the theme of time, the programme “Performing Time” features moving image works that reflect on time and performativity. Artists demonstrate how acts of physical endurance test the body’s limits and mirror the laborious processes of art making, and ultimately, of navigating life’s challenges.
Norio Imai’s Time Clothing (1978) captures the artist’s process of creating an outfit by photographing a man with a Polaroid camera, merging the immediacy of instant photography with the waiting process for images to develop and the simultaneity of video to form an intriguing time constellation.
For more information please visit the website of the Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival: https://aagff.mplus.org.hk/en/
