Electronic Arts Intermix: Janice Tanaka

Janice Tanaka

Janice Tanaka

Overview

Janice Tanaka's intricately textured video collages confront the autobiographical and the cultural. Merging social and political observations, philosophical inquiries and personal introspections, Tanaka's works use original footage, appropriated media images, and layered electronic processing. In recent works, she has extended these inquiries to the construction of Asian-American identity.

Titles

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Janice Tanaka: Selected Works

1980-81, 26:26 min, b&w and color, sound

Duality Duplicity

1980, 6:08 min, color, sound

Manpower

1980, 5:22 min, color, sound

Beaver Valley

1980, 6:45 min, color, sound

Mute

1981, 2:35 min, b&w and color, silent

Ontogenesis

1981, 5:36 min, color, sound

Superhuman Flights of Submoronic Fancies

1982, 10:09 min, b&w and color, sound

Grass or When the Rain Falls on the Water Does the Fish Get Any Wetter

1985, 5:25 min, b&w and color, sound

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

1987, 16:30 min, b&w and color, sound

Memories from the Department of Amnesia

1989, 12:50 min, b&w and color, sound

Who's going to pay for these donuts, anyway?

1992, 58:18 min, color, sound

No Hop Sing. No Bruce Lee: What do you do when none of your heroes look like you?

1998, 27:46 min, color, sound