Video artist David Blandy unravels his obsession with Chinese and Japanese pop culture in conversation with Japanese manga artist Inko on Thursday evening at Asia House, London, at 6:45pm.

From philosophical conversations concerning Bruce Lee to the quandary caused by loving Anime and being the grandson of a veteran of the Japanese concentration camps, Blandy will discuss the misrecognitions, mistranslations and revelations in Kung-Fu flicks, Manga and computer games. Asia House will be screening the London premiere Anjin 1600 (2012), ‘Japanese Space Opera’ and Child of the Atom (2010).

Blandy uses video, performance and comics to address how identity is constructed, investigating our relationship to the mass media and cultural heritage. Blandy won the Times/South Bank Show Breakthrough Award in 2010.

Inko was born in Kyoto, Japan, and has been working as a Manga artist, and as a culture and language ambassador with SOAS.

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