Bruce Yonemoto

Spalding Gray comes to LA to perform a set of monologues.

01 de jan. de 1984

Steeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of televi...

20 de out. de 1990

Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss a...

17 de jun. de 1986

Yonemoto’s video recreates the opening sequence from The Sound of Music, replacing the Austrian Alps with the Peruvian Andes, the village of Salzbe...

01 de jan. de 2007

Barravento Novo depicts correspondences between Antônio Pitanga—a Cinema Novo actor seen here delivering lines from Glauber Rocha’s first feature, ...

09 de nov. de 2017

In this tour-de-force of stylized deconstruction, the Yonemotos rewrite a traditional narrative of desire — boy meets girl, boy loses girl. Employi...

12 de jun. de 1984

Using the syntax of daytime soap operas, Green Card tells the story of Sumie, a Japanese artist who marries an American surfer/filmmaker to enable ...

01 de jan. de 1982

This stylized narrative is the first in the Yonemotos' Soap Opera Series,in which they employ the traditional syntax and codes of melodrama to expl...

01 de jan. de 1979

Featuring performances by artists Tony Oursler and Mike Kelley, Garage Sale II moves between a couple’s sexually dysfunctional relationship and a s...

01 de jan. de 1980

GARAGE SALE is a campy feature centered on a story of marital upheaval between drag queen Goldie Glitters and her fair-haired husband, Hero. A onet...

10 de set. de 1976

Focusing predominantly on Mexico City, this new work is an exploration of immigration and the ways in which different cultures intertwine or remain...

20 de mar. de 2022

This experimental video, created by Karen Finley and Bruce Yonemoto while artists-in-residence at California’s Montalvo Arts Center, touches on the...

31 de dez. de 2016

In the novella Blinky The Friendly Hen (1978), artist Jeffrey Vallance documented the supermarket purchase of a frozen chicken and its burial in th...

01 de jan. de 1988

Framed is presented in a single-channel video using two elements. The first element is the film footage that was found by the artists at the U.S. N...

01 de jan. de 1989

Europe’s enchantment with American consumer culture is depicted, as well-known European architectural landmarks – the Eiffel Tower, the Acropolis, ...

04 de abr. de 1992

The sky looms in the background of all human activity. It is elementary then that artists should be preoccupied with a phenomenon whose ageless nat...

28 de fev. de 1991