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was in London today at the start of an exhibition of her work at Tate Modern.
has lived voluntarily in a
obsessive and often overwhelming and
80 there's an awful lot of it too.
report contains some flashing lights and nudity.
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Extraordinary is a much abused word in the world of contemporary art but [Gb] I
has lived voluntarily in a
obsessive and often overwhelming and
80 there's an awful lot of it too.
report contains some flashing lights and nudity.
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Extraordinary is a much abused word in the world of contemporary art but [Gb] I
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was in London today at the start of an exhibition of her work at Tate Modern.
For the last more than 30 years Yayoi Kusama has lived voluntarily in a
psychiatric institution.
Her work is obsessive and often overwhelming and
since she's now well over 80 there's an awful lot of it too.
Steve Smith has been
to see a sample.
His report contains some flashing lights and nudity.
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_ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Extraordinary is a much abused word in the world of contemporary art but [Gb] I
think we [Db] might dust it off for Yayoi Kusama, an octogenarian in a [Gb] wheelchair
who somehow conquered [Ab] both the art scene [Gb] and the fashion [Db] world from her base in a
Japanese psychiatric hospital.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Newsnight met the doyen of the polka dot before
her big new show at Tate Modern in London.
_ _ What is your [Gb] interest in polka
dots?
Why do they crop [Abm] up so often in your art?
_ _ _ _ Please ask that to my hand.
_ I've drawn lots of dots since I was a child and
covered my fashion and my notebooks with dots. _
Dots are symbol of the world, the
cosmos, the earth is a dot, the moon, the sun, the stars are all made up of dots.
You and me, we are [B] dots.
_ _ _ [Ebm] _
_ _ _ _ _ Her work is highly colourful, [Ab] playful but Kusuma
[Ebm] herself is [Ab] a sober [Bbm] and serious presence [Ab] especially for someone in a throbbing
red outfit and matching [Bbm] wig [Abm] and she says she remains committed [Eb] to her
long-standing [Ebm] campaigning for peace. _
_ What ideas are you exploring here? _
_ _ _ _ [Abm] These are my own work about my life, the deep emotion of being born human and the various
movements of space as we know them.
We can find [Ab] out all sorts of things about
[Ebm] these through dots.
Kusuma-san, _ [E] _ _
maya kara _ _ _ ukagai takata _ desu ka?
_ I wonder how you feel about this big retrospective here at Tate Modern.
_ _ _ _ This is art that shines out from the bottom of my heart, love human love and I
really wanted to display it in this country that I love, England.
[B] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
_ [B] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ [Db] _ _
[B] _ [Dbm] Kusuma collaborated with [Ab] musician Peter Gabriel [B] on this video.
_ What did he see in her work?
_ [E] _ _ [B] _ [Dbm] _ _ A really original [B] point of view, passionate intensity [Ebm] that was [Em] on the one hand [Gb] very [Dbm] childlike and on another
_ [N] very smart adult and quite disturbing. _ _ _ _
We had a few days just recreating some of
her work and a boat full of fallacies. _ _
Did one of your people say Peter we're gonna need to spend some more money, we're gonna have to go down to Wicks and just see what's_
[A] How did that all go?
It's quite hard to locate a boatload of willies so [Db] we definitely had to [Ebm] do it yourself. _ _ _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ [Bbm] I'm glad you brought those up.
[Abm] _ The [B] male member is to [Eb] Kusuma what the tree trunk is to late career Hockney.
[Db] Dare we ask, [Bb] what's that about?
_ _ _ [Db] I was very [G] afraid of [Ab] fallacies.
[Em] I haven't had sex. _
_ _ As a child I suffered a lot because my father led a very devout lifestyle and I came to hate sex.
_ _ As a kind of art therapy I created lots of sex, _ [E]
filled a room with them and I lost my fear. _
_ _ [Em] _ The psychiatric hospital where Kusuma lives became a refuge of her [C] own choosing after a [Em] bout of illness many years ago.
_ _ [Ab] _
_ For three or four days I didn't eat, I just painted and collapsed.
After three days then I went to psychiatric hospital.
The doctor said that I had to be admitted.
[Eb] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _
[Ebm] _ _ Critics are [Bbm] sympathetic to Kusuma's [Ab] plight of course [Ebm] but that doesn't mean they all love her art. _
It's fun, like a fizzy drink with all these spots [N] like bubbles.
It's got this endless fizz, it's effervescent.
_ _ Obviously we're told that it's driven by deep pain and psychological illness but that doesn't really come through in the arts.
For me I don't find it some kind of disturbing hypnotic ecstasy in this art.
I find it just a fizzy pop cultural style. _
Well the show's been fun but I'm really looking forward to this place, the [E] obliteration room they call it.
It's [Bm] not the bar by the way.
_ _ _ _ [B] This Orwellian sounding obliteration room is pristine at the moment.
But the idea is that visitors [N] to the show can come in here and completely cover its surfaces with brightly coloured [Bm] polka dots. _
_ _ _ [G] _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] Drinking this BBC coffee.
_ [A] _
[G] _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Kusuma also writes, makes films and sings.
This one's a lament for her late parents. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Bravo!
Kusuma-san, thank you very much, very nice to meet you.
_ _ _ Well you hardly have failed to notice that the England manager Fabio Capello resigned a few hours ago
For the last more than 30 years Yayoi Kusama has lived voluntarily in a
psychiatric institution.
Her work is obsessive and often overwhelming and
since she's now well over 80 there's an awful lot of it too.
Steve Smith has been
to see a sample.
His report contains some flashing lights and nudity.
_ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Extraordinary is a much abused word in the world of contemporary art but [Gb] I
think we [Db] might dust it off for Yayoi Kusama, an octogenarian in a [Gb] wheelchair
who somehow conquered [Ab] both the art scene [Gb] and the fashion [Db] world from her base in a
Japanese psychiatric hospital.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Newsnight met the doyen of the polka dot before
her big new show at Tate Modern in London.
_ _ What is your [Gb] interest in polka
dots?
Why do they crop [Abm] up so often in your art?
_ _ _ _ Please ask that to my hand.
_ I've drawn lots of dots since I was a child and
covered my fashion and my notebooks with dots. _
Dots are symbol of the world, the
cosmos, the earth is a dot, the moon, the sun, the stars are all made up of dots.
You and me, we are [B] dots.
_ _ _ [Ebm] _
_ _ _ _ _ Her work is highly colourful, [Ab] playful but Kusuma
[Ebm] herself is [Ab] a sober [Bbm] and serious presence [Ab] especially for someone in a throbbing
red outfit and matching [Bbm] wig [Abm] and she says she remains committed [Eb] to her
long-standing [Ebm] campaigning for peace. _
_ What ideas are you exploring here? _
_ _ _ _ [Abm] These are my own work about my life, the deep emotion of being born human and the various
movements of space as we know them.
We can find [Ab] out all sorts of things about
[Ebm] these through dots.
Kusuma-san, _ [E] _ _
maya kara _ _ _ ukagai takata _ desu ka?
_ I wonder how you feel about this big retrospective here at Tate Modern.
_ _ _ _ This is art that shines out from the bottom of my heart, love human love and I
really wanted to display it in this country that I love, England.
[B] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
_ [B] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ [Db] _ _
[B] _ [Dbm] Kusuma collaborated with [Ab] musician Peter Gabriel [B] on this video.
_ What did he see in her work?
_ [E] _ _ [B] _ [Dbm] _ _ A really original [B] point of view, passionate intensity [Ebm] that was [Em] on the one hand [Gb] very [Dbm] childlike and on another
_ [N] very smart adult and quite disturbing. _ _ _ _
We had a few days just recreating some of
her work and a boat full of fallacies. _ _
Did one of your people say Peter we're gonna need to spend some more money, we're gonna have to go down to Wicks and just see what's_
[A] How did that all go?
It's quite hard to locate a boatload of willies so [Db] we definitely had to [Ebm] do it yourself. _ _ _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ [Bbm] I'm glad you brought those up.
[Abm] _ The [B] male member is to [Eb] Kusuma what the tree trunk is to late career Hockney.
[Db] Dare we ask, [Bb] what's that about?
_ _ _ [Db] I was very [G] afraid of [Ab] fallacies.
[Em] I haven't had sex. _
_ _ As a child I suffered a lot because my father led a very devout lifestyle and I came to hate sex.
_ _ As a kind of art therapy I created lots of sex, _ [E]
filled a room with them and I lost my fear. _
_ _ [Em] _ The psychiatric hospital where Kusuma lives became a refuge of her [C] own choosing after a [Em] bout of illness many years ago.
_ _ [Ab] _
_ For three or four days I didn't eat, I just painted and collapsed.
After three days then I went to psychiatric hospital.
The doctor said that I had to be admitted.
[Eb] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _
[Ebm] _ _ Critics are [Bbm] sympathetic to Kusuma's [Ab] plight of course [Ebm] but that doesn't mean they all love her art. _
It's fun, like a fizzy drink with all these spots [N] like bubbles.
It's got this endless fizz, it's effervescent.
_ _ Obviously we're told that it's driven by deep pain and psychological illness but that doesn't really come through in the arts.
For me I don't find it some kind of disturbing hypnotic ecstasy in this art.
I find it just a fizzy pop cultural style. _
Well the show's been fun but I'm really looking forward to this place, the [E] obliteration room they call it.
It's [Bm] not the bar by the way.
_ _ _ _ [B] This Orwellian sounding obliteration room is pristine at the moment.
But the idea is that visitors [N] to the show can come in here and completely cover its surfaces with brightly coloured [Bm] polka dots. _
_ _ _ [G] _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] Drinking this BBC coffee.
_ [A] _
[G] _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Kusuma also writes, makes films and sings.
This one's a lament for her late parents. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Bravo!
Kusuma-san, thank you very much, very nice to meet you.
_ _ _ Well you hardly have failed to notice that the England manager Fabio Capello resigned a few hours ago