Cavaliere, Barbara

Concepts in Performance: Taka Iimura Bibliography

Taka Iimura's I equals You equals He/She was a participation/performance through the medium of video presented June 5–17, 1979, with a performance June 9 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Av. The installation used three video camera/monitors, three audiotapes heard through three sets of headphones and a swivel chair; audience and Iimura exchanged live and recorded front/side/rear self-views and repeated intonations of I am/you are/he is, she is, while Iimura recorded and replayed phrases. Iimura links his approach to Allan Kaprow and frames an East/West dialectic, emphasizing video technology for self-identification.