| Title | Video realization of Mieko Shiomi’s Mirror Piece |
| Maker | Dicky Bahto (American, b. 1981) |
| Date | 1963, realized 2021 |
| Medium | digital video |
| Type | video |
The original instructions for Mirror Piece (1963) by Mieko Shiomi read:
- Stand on the sandy beach with your back to the sea.
- Hold a mirror before your face and look in it.
- Then step back to the sea and enter into the water.
Here the piece is performed by Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, Taylor Doran, Yvonne Tam, and Dicky Bahto at various locations along the Pacific Coast.
Used by permission of Dicky Bahto & Mieko Shiomi.
Cite
Bahto, Dicky. Video realization of Mieko Shiomi’s
Mirror Piece, 1963, realized 2021. . In
The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music,
Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John
Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025.
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