Shozo Shimamoto / PERFORMANCE PALAZZO DUCALE: Organized by ABC-ARTE and Antonio Borghese

On Novembre 13rd 2008, at 2.00 o' clock, Genoa Palazzo Ducale became the set of spectacular performance by japaneese Master Shozo Shimamoto, organized by ABC-ARTE.
During the same day, the exhibition Shozo Shimamoto Samurai, tumbler of gaze: 1950-2008, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, opened in Villa Croce Contemporary Art Museum. The artist threw glasses and bottles full of colors upon a 10x10m canvas inside the entrance of the Palace.
The  soundtrack of the performance was curated by the wellknown american compositor Philip Corner: the fluxus artist, who joined many historical groups such as Judson Dance Theater, Tone Roads Concerts, The Something Else Press, Sound Out of Silent Spaces, Frog Peak Composers Collective, Experimental Intermedia Foundation shared with Shimamoto the experimentation activity in both acoustic e visual field.
Shimamoto's interest for this kind of research, far from being subjective, started from the material elements  that form the work itself.
Corner, with the dancer Phoebe Neville, proposed a selection of tracks from his Gong! album, where acoustic variations are collected, studying the possibility of metallic instruments of making sound. The music was produced by a big bronze tam-tam, amplified inside the Palace
The performance involved with its colored actions and its fascinatinf sonorities a big audience and the students of Universite degli Studi di Genova.
Fluxus and Gutai, Corner e Shimamoto, art becoming life, life becoming sound and color, giving birth to an original and unique artistic experience.