12/06/2026
Now on view
Reunion is an outstanding artist’s book by Shigeko Kubota, published in 1970. Documenting the March 1968 performance Reunion in Toronto, the book pairs Kubota’s black-and-white photographs of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage playing chess on an electronic chessboard with Cage’s text 36 Acrostics re and not re Duchamp and a blue flexi-disc recording of the event. The flexi-disc represents the only publicly released audio recording of Reunion, a performance in which chess games between Cage and the Duchamps determined the form and spatial distribution of electronic music composed by David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor, and Lowell Cross.
The work is part of the exhibition *After Before*, which brings together works by Hanne Darboven, William Engelen, Shigeko Kubota, Nam June Paik, Ben Patterson, Takako Saito, Hanae Utamura, and others.
open 11.05.26 – 27.06.26 | Thu – Fri 2 – 6 pm| Sat 12 – 4 pm and by appointment
Image: Shigeko Kubota | Marcel Duchamp and John Cage / Reunion | Artist Book | 1970 | Estate of Shigeko Kubota
Hanae Utamura