1980

Bill Viola and Kira Perov wed. Bill obtains a joint study grant for creative art graduates from Japan and the United States. He moves to Japan with Kira Perov for eighteen months to study the country’s traditional culture and leading-edge video technology. Their teacher is Zen master and painter Daien Tanaka, who becomes their master of life. Bill Viola presents Selected Work 1976–80 in Japan’s first video gallery run by Fujiko Nakaya. He produces a sound performance entitled Tunings from the Mountain comprising fog sculptures in the open air by Fujiko Nakaya: A Fog, Sound and Light Festival, at Kawaji Onsen.

Fujiko Nakaya, Foggy Forest.