TOKYO SCREENING
Japanese Emerging Artists
Video Screenings

Friday and Saturday, October 16th & 17th
Admission: FREE, $10 minimum
Showtime: 7:30pm
reservations are recommended

Friday's Program:
Trenzinfizting + Amelia Saul + Japanese Video Artists
Brooklyn based musicians collaborate with Japanese video artists!
Video artists include: Maho Hikino, Wataru Ito, Akira Miyanaga, Sonoko Yamada, Nao Kozono, and Akiko Kikuchi

Saturday's Program:
Sontag Shogun + Tsubaki Shiraishi + Japanese Video Artists
Brooklyn based musicians collaborate with Japanese video artists!
Video artists include: Karasuda Haruna, Kana Minamoto, Hitomi Mitani, Yu Wakatsuki, Yukako Mukumoto, Kim Midong, and Akiko Kikuchi

New York / Tokyo - PEPPER'S PROJECT, a Tokyo-based gallery and art
project, is pleased to present TOKYO SCREENING, an exhibition and two
nights of screening events by Japanese emerging video artists.

Thirteen young Japanese emerging video-artists based in Tokyo will be
introduced at the two nights of screening events at Monkeytown. Those
artists’ video works have new concepts and perceptions,
dramatically different from what we see in today’s ordinary
video-art. Their ambitions can be seen in their unique perceptions and
sensitive essences in their works. Additionally, it well portrays
today’s atmosphere in Tokyo. The collection of those video works
from the screening events will let audiences feel the atmosphere of
today’s Tokyo.

The exhibition is produced by PEPPER'S PROJECT, a Tokyo-based gallery
and art projects. Since 1998, PEPPER'S PROJECT has organized large
numbers of themed exhibitions to present the works of young Japanese
artists working in a variety of genres and media. Thus far, PEPPER'S
PROJECT exhibitions have been held simultaneously in two spaces -
Pepper's Gallery and Pepper's Loft Gallery. In the last ten years,
many young artists have taken their first step toward wider
recognition with an exhibition at Pepper's. In August 2006, Pepper's
Loft Gallery closed its door and Pepper's Gallery became the core
location of the exhibition programming, while PEPPER'S PROJECT started
exhibiting artists in spaces in numerous major cities, including those
abroad, as a part of its extension and output programs.

The PEPPER’S PROJECT has been producing JAPANESE YOUNG ARTISTS
BOOK FAIR in both Tokyo and New York for three years starting from
2007. Additionally, The PEPPER’S has been producing several
simultaneous exhibition programs in many locations in Brooklyn in 2008
and 2009. This video exhibition is an extended project from those two
other programs, attempting to introduce more prospects of Japanese
young artists.



Sontag Shogun is a Brooklyn trio that uses a live piano filtered through two simultaneous electronics stations to create shifting walls of sound, mirrors that chase each other through a forest of tones. Haunting echoed vocals, tape-delays and cymbal manipulations add to the textured collage.

http://www.myspace.com/sontagshogun

Trenzinfizting

For more information:
http://www.peppers-project.com