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Email PageNARUHODO! Za Wahrudo / OH I SEE! The World
February 3, 4:00 pm - 4:40 pm
Haruko Tanaka
CUE Art Foundation
511 W 25th StNARUHODO! Za Wahrudo / OH I SEE! The World CUE Art Foundation, 511 West 25th Street, NYC Performance by Haruko Tanaka Saturday, February 3 at 4:00pm Duration of performance: 40 min. Free Admission. Reservations Required in Advance: 212.206.3583
Travel all over the globe in 40 minutes, Japanese style, in artist Haruko Tanaka’s un-subtitled, re-cut and simultaneously translated screening of one of Japan’s legendary travel TV quiz shows from the 80's, ‘NARUHODO! ZA WAHRUDO’. “Naruhodo” means “Hmm yes, I see, I get it,” and “Za wahrudo” means “the World” in Japanese. The interactive performance at CUE will feature bilingual, dual/real time/live translation by three translators (one being the artist) guiding audience members on their 40 minute journey.
The performance will feature projected footage compiled from ten TV segments of various Japanese journalists each traveling to a different country throughout the world. At the end of each segment, the reporter poses questions about the local customs or particular activity taking place to Japanese celebrities back in the studio. During the screening, audience members will be invited to shout out their own answers to these quiz questions. As an extension to Tanaka’s current exhibition at CUE (February 1 – March 10), the program further reveals the artist’s attempt to delineate the gap and transcend the distance between the familiar and the foreign, by exploring the relationship between what the audience is hearing (and trusting) from the translators and what they are seeing on the screen.
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