Born in New York in 1946, Dara Birnbaum is a pioneering artist known for challenging conventional intersections of video art, TV and technology. Curated by Barbara London, Valentino Catoricala and Eva Fabris, this Tokyo showcase is running in conjunction with a larger exhibition at the Prada Foundation Osservatorio in Milan.
This showcase features four of Birnbaum’s works completed between 1979 and 2011: ‘Kiss the Girls: Make Them Cry’, ‘Arabesque', 'Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat dur’, and ‘New Music Shorts’. Her pioneering video, media and installation works span over five decades, and they examine the ideological and aesthetic traits of mass media images while laying the foundational groundwork in understanding media art history.