Using Visual Archives as a Device for Pluralizing Experiences: An attempt of Screenings and Art Workshops with Music and performing arts images in EC film

Abstract

Since 2012, I have been working with Japanese artists, curators and diverse participants on the use of EC Film, an academic video archive constructed in Germany in the 1950s-80s. In the first part of this article, we will present a series of screenings/lectures that combine EC Film, various locations, real materials and guest speakers with multiple perspectives, as well as the "Fieldwork in Films" exhibition held in Tokyo in 2019. In the second part, we will focus on the attempt to 're-enact’ music and performing arts images in EC film, and consider the ways in which we, living in the present day, can recombine and 'pass on' visual archives that capture the experiences of 'distant others'.