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By John Held, Jr.

 

 

Held and Shimamoto, Sennan Art Village, 1988.

 

On August 10, 1988, I found myself laid out in a wetsuit atop a plank of wood in Sennan Art Village, somewhere in Southern Japan. I was wearing a respirator, while being spray painted by Shozo Shimamoto, a former member of the Gutai art association, who had arranged a series of performances throughout the country for a group of artists from Italy, France, Japan and the United States, drawn together by their interest in Mail Art. We had come to commemorate the victims of Hiroshima, performing there on August 6.

 

 

Shozo Shimamoto. Bottle Crash. Circa 1960.

 

While Shozo was spray painting around me, leaving a shadow where I would later stencil in words, surrounded by curious children, I had no idea that this was in perfect keeping with the Gutai tradition of art arising from concrete, or performative actions. Yes, I knew of Shozo’s past history in Gutai, and met members of the group, including Yasuo Sumi and Teruyuki Tsubouchi. But Shozo never mentioned this, nor did he refer to the wetsuit and respirator I was wearing, which unconsciously mimicked an outfit Shozo wore thirty years before, when he performing his “bottle crash” activiti