Susie Ibarra and Makoto Fujimura at Shinseido Gallery, Tokyo Part #2

Part 2 From Carnegie Hall to Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village Ibarra and Fujimura has had over ten collaborative performances. Here, at the opening in Fujimura's exhibit at Shinseido Gallery, Ibarra joins in a "gift" performance. Fujimura is using handmade Japanese paper especially made for their collaborations, and uses platinum, gold and mineral pigments used in Nihonga technique. The surprise ending includes a box designed by Akiko Urakawa of Osaka IAM. Fujimura and Ibarra will do a live performance at Space 38|39 (38 West 39th St., NY, International Arts Movement) September 24th from 8:00pm.

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Music

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• Makoto Fujimura
• Susie Ibarra

[elgrocche]

this women can play drums like only a woman with deepest true devotion for life and truth can do!

you bored or pissed guys, that complain here, because of listening and understanding nothing, go and try to sit on a chair in an empty,dark room, no music on!, just sit!, maybe it helps you a little bit in approaching respect for true,bare, naked art!

as being a drummer myself, i am just like jealous, of what susie is able to perform!

[realself1]

love her expression at 5:20! great music though, totally "ambient"

[CIRCUSCOMECHINGONES]

Susie Ibarra no estan buena!!!!!

[cesar26996]

desperdicie casi dies minutos de mi vida esperando a ver algo emocionante!!! que fraude nmms

[dovespromise]

I enjoyed this performance art collaboration. Susie's performance evoked primordial themes that matched perfectly Mako's raw act of creation. I was very intrigued by the tearing of paper and breaking it into pieces. I felt a pain in that tearing, but then saw it was necessary to "break bread" to share with others. I'm not familiar w/ the "brushes" Susie used to play some parts as I am less familiar w/ music. But using them brought a kinship...the same feeling of brushing paint across canvas.

[pauloibarra1]

very good!!!

[Drumboy5165]

I dunno, interesting and may be ambiently pleasing to some...but in the end if it is filling up her checking account why should any one of us care?

[letterheads]

@jehu It's pointless, but so is your arguement, you can't call something like this "talent". I'm doing actual excercises and musical symphony numbers on my instruments to push forward my techniques and understanding of music. I know what is hard to do and what is not, that girl on the video, what she is playing, it's NOT hard and could be done by anybody.

Also yeah, you said it, my brother can't play shit, but he still plays better than her.

[letterheads]

@Timothy1357911 The point was that you said this was technical, but it isn't, not at all.

[Timothy1357911]

@letterheads where exactly is this 2/4 and 3/4 you refer too? I fear you may have missed the point.

[JimHarryinc]

Where it concerns whether or not this sucks, both parties are right and wrong. Art is what it means to the person perceiving it, whether it's visual or aural or whatever. One may see crap one may see glory, but both are right. Where you become wrong is when you try to tell an opposing viewpoint they're incorrect. I had a hard time calling blank canvases or random squiggles "art," but eventually I realized that a painting or piece of music becomes art when it's given meaning through perception.

[letterheads]

@jehu I understand enough to know that there's nothing complex or outside the box there, it's just basic 2/4 and 3/4 triplets there with rolls. Even my little brother could play that, he doesn't play drums.

Besides I wouldn't even go as far as to call this playing, it's just rubble and noise.