20 QUESTIONS ABOUT MY WORK

  1. Did Duchamp do everything but video?

  2. Are we dancing still on the giant palm of Duchamp, thinking it is a big continent and ocean?

  3. Is there life after death?

  4. Is there video after death?

  5. Can we communicate with the dead through video?

  6. By the way, is it always others who die?

  7. The art world of the 1960s evolved out of the dialectic tension of two poles: Art and Anti-Art. The art of the 1970s seems to be developing in tripartite evolution: Art, Anti-Art, and Video, as a vacation of art between them.

  8. Is there sex after death?

  9. Is there an art about art like my “Video-Duchampiana,” like a history about history?

  10. Are we dancing on the grave of Duchamp like an American Indian Sun Dance? Ghost dance?

  11. Is video the window of yesterday?

  12. Is video the window of tomorrow?

  13. Is video a door to open your mind?

  14. Is video a door to close your mind?

  15. Is my video “Vico-Video?”

  16. Is video vengeance of tomorrow?

  17. Is video victory of vagina?

  18. Is video vacant apartment?

  19. Is video vacation of art???

  20. Viva video…

   — Shigeko Kubota Video Sculpture, published by American Museum of the Moving Image, 1991.