For its fourth edition, OFFSCREEN features Shigeko Kubota as the Guest of Honor with a selection of notable works spanning Kubota's five-decade career. Over her five-decade career, Shigeko Kubota (1937-2015) was instrumental in elevating video to fine art status and pioneering the development of video sculpture. An active participant in the international Fluxus movement, Kubota forged a lyrical confluence of the personal and the technological. Strongly influenced by—and personally acquainted with—Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, Kubota’s work encompasses several interconnected themes: installations paying homage to Duchampian ideas, works referencing Japanese spiritual traditions of water and mountains, and an ongoing video chronicle of her personal life. Her work is held in prestigious collections including The Museum of Modern Art New York, the Guggenheim Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, and has been exhibited at major international venues from the Whitney Museum to Documenta and the Venice Biennale.
