Artforum, December 1st, 2004
ATSUKO TANAKA NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GREY ART GALLERY/ PAULA COOPER GALLERY "Make it new" was the mandate of Gutaï, a pioneering collective in postwar Japan. The dictum was realized emphatically in many of the group's performance works, such as Kazuo Shiraga's Challenge to the Mud, 1955, in which the artist writhed in a pile of slop, creating a constantly shifting live informe sculpture that made Pollock's rhythmic pouring and dripping seem positively genteel. In another radical act, Atsuko Tanaka donned a potentially dangerous costume of tangled cords and brightly painted incandescent bulbs t...
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