Here are some additional resources on Zero Jigen, Fluxus, Hi-Reed Center, and performance art during this time period.

FILMED RITUALS: ZERO JIGEN INCARNATES ON SCREEN by Julian Ross
http://desistfilm.com/filmed-rituals-zero-jigen-incarnates-on-screen/

TAKAHIKO IMURA by Julian Ross
http://www.midnighteye.com/interviews/takahiko-iimura/

FLUXUS NEXUS: FLUXUS IN NEW YORK AND JAPAN by Midori Yoshimoto
http://post.at.moma.org/content_items/199-fluxus-nexus-fluxus-in-new-york-and-japan

INTERMEDIA/TRANSMEDIA by Shiomi Mieko
http://post.at.moma.org/content_items/241-intermedia-transmedia

EXHIBITING FLUXUS: MAPPING HI-RED CENTER IN TOKYO: 1955-1970: A NEW AVANT-GARDE
http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2013/01/30/exhibiting-fluxus-mapping-hi-red-center-in-tokyo-1955-1970-a-new-avant-garde-2/

HI-RED CENTER ON TUMBLR
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/hi-red-center

THROW OUT THE BOOKS, GET OUT IN THE STREETS: SUBJECTIVITY AND SPACE IN THE JAPANESE UNDERGROUND ART OF THE 1960’s by Taro E. F Nettleton (dissertation)
http://udini.proquest.com/view/throw-out-the-books-get-out-in-the-pqid:2275394841/

CINEMA = MOVEMENT: INTERSECTIONS OF JAPANESE ART AND POLITICS by Christopher Bourne
http://voices.yahoo.com/cinema-movement-intersections-japanese-art-politics-637903.html

CINEMA + SITUATIONS film program at Tonic in NYC
http://www.bordersphere.com/events/tonic.pdf

Then there’s this outrageously expensive book that just came out a few months ago:
PERFORMATIVITY AND EVENT IN 1960’s JAPAN: CITY, BODY, MEMORY by Peter Eckersall
http://www.amazon.com/Performativity-Event-1960s-Japan-Memory/dp/1137017376

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