ニューヨーク近代美術館のインスタグラム(themuseumofmodernart) - 10月27日 03時58分

“I hope that Asian American artists will soon have their moment in the sun.” — Bruce Yonemoto

Bruce and Norman Yonemoto were born in California’s Silicon Valley to a Japanese American mother shortly after her release from Tule Lake internment camp, and a Japanese American father who had recently completed a wartime tour of duty in the US Army.

After moving to Los Angeles, Bruce and Norman forged a path in video art during the 1970s. Combining experimental approaches to the new medium without shying away from the visual codes of the film and television industries, they collaborated with a range of artists and counterculture luminaries.

The Yonemotos addressed complex questions about the Asian American experience, unfixing rigid notions of race and identity within an approach as rooted in popular culture as it was in underground sensibilities.

“Green Card: An American Romance” is the third and final installment in the Yonemotos’ Soap Opera Series. Satirizing 1980s Los Angeles and the city’s burgeoning art scene, the film betrays the Yonemotos’ fascination with the melodramatic clichés of American soap operas and the films of Douglas Sirk, drawing on the vernacular of Southern California’s entertainment industry.

📺 Stream Bruce and Norman Yonemoto’s “Green Card: An American Romance” from October 26 – November 9 in the latest installment of our Hyundai Card Video Views series featuring video works from the collection, link in bio.
📖 Read an interview between @byonemoto and Julie Ault on #MoMAMagazine.

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Bruce Yonemoto, Norman Yonemoto. “Green Card: An American Romance” (excerpt). 1982. Video (color, sound), 79:15 min. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. © 2022 Bruce Yonemoto. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix, New York

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