On March 29, Professor Namiko Kunimoto presented a talk titled Tanaami Keiichi: Commerical War (and Chickens) at the The Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami. Below is a summary of the talk, details of which can also be found on the ICAM Website. 

Coming of age in postwar Japan filled with memories of devastation, with a vibrant psychedelic culture and the sexual revolution in full swing and an economic boom afoot, Keiichi Tanaami proved to be one of the most important artists to emerge from the 1960s. This presentation will delve into the artist’s work in relation to the social and artistic trends of the times. It will look at Tanaami’s dynamic movement across media like animation and collage and his connections to Andy Warhol and Tsujimura Kazuko. It will ask how the emergent visual landscape of the 1960s altered one’s sense of the political, the spiritual, and the psychic, and explore how Tanaami offered very specific and profound answers to these questions.