Cutie and the Boxer Storyville

GENTLE SCRAPING

BLENDER WHIRRS

MUSIC: "108 Desires" by Yasuaki Shimizu

# Food, sex, sleep

# Money, health, flow

# Speed, love, nurse

# Peace, hair, clothes

# Dreams, space, fate

# Trouble, home, flower

# Push, murder, breeze

# Water, curves, tan

# Alone, mirror, truth

# Mother, risk, fall

# Shock, colour, caress

# Hands

# Good

# Nasty, heat, please

# Wit, whims, sperm... #

HE COUGHS

# Just, you, fool

# Empty, laughs, skin

# Different, smell, third eye

# Hunt, time, fight

# Sacrifice, nicotine, youth

# Sane, lies, blue

# Info, clear, noise

# Reason, teasing, honesty

# Hard, soft, beauty

# Danger

# Curves, curves, alone

# Mirror, truth, mother, risk, fall

# Shock, pain, body, fame

# Hear me, free me, eat me

# Kill me, give me, form me

# Game me

# Heaven, cold

# Jealous, release, subtle

# Nature, shelter, energy

# Flavour, control, dirt

# Street, scream, ideas

# True hell. #

BEEPING

Open Sesame!

HE COUGHS

HORN HONKS

GUNFIRE

SCREAMING

ENGINE REVS

HE GRUNTS AND COUGHS

CAT MEOWS

WATER RUNS

FOOTBALL COMMENTARY ON TV

Right, right, right. Little more, little more.

This show in New York, which we call

Shinohara: WHAM! POW! VROOOM!

Um...is the idea of action, and also,

vroom for his motorcycle, because Shinohara has been making sculpture,

you know, since the beginning of his artistic career.

He's been famous for years, but now is maybe one of his key moments.

ARCHIVE NARRATOR: 'In the 1960s, a Japanese painter came to New York

'seeking to create art that would reflect

'the city's prosperity and chaos.

'This artist is Ushio Shinohara.

'Early morning in Soho.

'Cardboard has been discarded in the streets.

'And by walking a couple of blocks from his loft,

'Shinohara can collect all he needs for his day's work.

'At the moment, he is preparing a new sculpture

'using great amounts of cardboard,

'while his wife Noriko works on her own paintings.

'As a young man in Tokyo,

'he emerged as a leader in Japan's avant-garde art movement,

'with his imitation of American Pop Art.

'And action painting.'

The quality of Ushio Shinohara's art is, to say the least, in some doubt.

But it does illustrate the rather frenetic spirit of rebellion

among some young people,

and not only in Japan, throughout the world.

'When he arrived in the United States,

'he was at once in the limelight of the mass media.

'It is said Shinohara is the most famous

'of the poor and struggling artists in New York.

'While his works are exhibited across Japan,

'American collectors often say, "That's a wonderful image,

'"but not my taste."

'So most of Shinohara's pieces have never sold.'

What's most important is that moment when he created the painting.

This is a result,

but...a beautiful result,

but also the actions. The energy's in there.

Have you met Shinohara?

-Nice to see you.

-Yeah, nice to meet you again.

-It's wonderful.

And he also made this extraordinary sculpture.

It gets very good mileage!

Yeah, I'm sure!

-So you could put some foam on the top.

-Yeah.

CAT PURRS

CAT YOWLS Ha!

CAT PURRS

TELEPHONE RINGS

Hold on, please. She's coming soon.

Hi, good morning.

Mm-hmm, hi.

Mm-hmm.

OK. Bye.

-How are you?

-Nice to see you.

Nice to see you! Nice to see you.

Congratulations on your show.

OK, and we'd like to talk also

about the one we're going to buy for the Guggenheim Museum,

which one it will be.

Yes, also there's a piece that he created that's larger...

-Yeah.

-..and, in fact, this is the detail.

I...I...I'm interested in one that has, like, a real historical...

No, no, yeah, exactly, um...

-Yeah.

-And they're interested in...

We're just trying to get him...you know, he needs support,

he needs to be...you know, and he's getting it now,

-and you're also very key...

-Great.

-..which is really wonderful.

-That's great, fantastic.

That's good, that's good.

That is good.

HE SHOUTS IN JAPANESE

Whoo!

Yes!

Nice.

Fantastic, fantastic.

Fantastic!

Whoo! That is fabulous!

It looks like a poppy field.

Poppy field... Oh, yes! Afghan poppy field.

It looks like an Afghan poppy field.

Yeah, Poppy Field, it's definitely Poppy Field, yeah.

-It's so important he's not thinking.

-Right.

-He's doing.

-Yeah.

It's visceral, so different from Pollock.

Pollock was actually consciously...you know,

it's very, very powerful.

You know, I want to work to try and find funders

who can help us acquire the work.

We want one that has some historical...resonance.

What other ones exist?

-The Kamakura one was photographed in the...

-Ah, Art In America.

-..Art In America.

-It showed in Art In America.

-OK, so that's the kind of thing that they like.

-Yeah.

That's the kind of thing I need. Can you show me a picture of that?

-We have the copy of Art In America here.

-Yeah, yeah, let's take a look.

-Noriko, I like this one.

-Mm-hmm.

-I prefer this one.

Oh.

But the way we can work it out...

We have to be sure that Ushio and Noriko benefit.

No, no, that's...

-OK, OK.

-We can work this out, we can negotiate this.

No, no, no, arigato, arigato. No, I appreciate that.

No, I appreciate that. Wakaru, wakaru.

OK, so I need to do something. It's going to take some time.

I mean, I'm sorry, you have already been so patient with me.

It's just, you know, we're just... I'm doing a start-up.

-Yeah, terrible.

-Worse, very sick.

-Two, three...

-Arigato.

CAT MEOWS

BABY CRIES

THUNDERCLAP

BABY CRIES

I...I...I'm OK.

CAT PURRS

Uh... Oh, could I have a little bit?

DRUNKEN CHATTER

HE SINGS DRUNKENLY

SHE SINGS SOFTLY

CAT MEOWS

SHE WHISTLES SOOTHINGLY

CAT PURRS

AIR BLOWS

THEY LAUGH

I like this very much.

Even from far, I could see something strong here.

Something strong is here.

Very nice.

DOORBELL RINGS

Thank you.

HE GRUNTS

RINGING

HE INHALES Oh, good smell!

OK, 35.

HE LAUGHS

HE LAUGHS

TELEPHONE RINGS

TELEPHONE RINGS

Hello.

How are you?

I bought 50 pound of white pigment...

-'50 pound?'

-Yeah.

-It is...

-'Why?'

-Why?

I'm going to have exhibition and now I'm painting at a gallery.

And using a big brush and a small brush

and big Cuties.

HE SINGS TO HIMSELF

Celery hamburger...

BOTH: Quick, quick, slow. Quick, quick, slow.