ABSTRACT
"Human beings desire transformation". The desire for transformation and the many ways one might understand this was expressed in numerous artistic and political outpourings in 1960s Japan. Remediation is a concept that describes how art works can "put the viewer in the same space as the objects viewed" and is a helpful way of thinking about how this extension of butoh into visual arts also takes us back to the body. Using a wind-up super-8 camera that had limited filming time, Iimura created impressionistic and anarchic sequences that captured the flights of movement of the dancers in blurry, extended, and fragmented arrangements. The films, like the photographs, above, are remediations of the embodied experience into image. The difference here is that this is a moving image that captures scenes from the dance and then extends it into abstract sequences of blurring bodies, flaying clothes, and distended surfaces.
