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		April 23(Fri) - Jun.13(Sun.), 1999 [Finished] Gallery A
		Preface Bruce Yonemoto, born in San Jose, USA in 1949, is a third-generation American of Japanese descent, currently residing in Los Angeles. As "Bruce and Norman Yonemoto," he and his older brother Norman have been working collaboratively since the late 1970s, showing works which employ media such as video and film, and have been continuously active on the West Coast, mainly Los Angeles. In their works which incorporate archival film footage of concentration camps where Japanese Americans were held during the war, or those which show the lives of the Nipo-Brasilero community, Bruce and Norman manifest their unique viewpoint and concerns as Americans of Japanese parentage. The Yonemotos are highly recognized today as video installation artists representing the West Coast art scene, not only for these works, but also for the span of their creative activity as seen in collaborations with their contemporaries such as Mike Kelley and John Baldessari. BRUCE YONEMOTO: Disappearance of Memory at the NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] will present film installation works made solo by Bruce especially for this occasion, which take up themes such as "life," "death," and "time." Films are apparatus which serve as reservoir for information in the form of various images; in a sense, they are a certain kind of memory. In this exhibition, we attempt to think about films as memories, and further, about various problems which arise from them, by exploring films which have been made with long-used techniques such as claymation and time-lapse, and installation works using such films.