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Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver (b. 1947, Shiga Prefecture) is an artist with a multidisciplinary practice. As a high school student, he formed the artist collectives The Play and Remandaran and staged on-street performances of a conceptual nature in Kyoto and Osaka. Living between Tokyo and the Kansai region in the late-1960s, he began to attract the attention of the media and was considered to be a representative figure of the hippie (fūten) phenomenon, going by the nickname Gulliver, which he continues to keep as his artist name. In 1967, he presented a series of conceptually driven films at the discotheque L.S.D. in Tokyo. Together with Rikuro Miyai, he began presenting film in Tokyo jazz clubs, such as Pit Inn and Noa Noa as well as at events organised by the Art Film Association in Kyoto and Osaka. As a participant of the Intermedia Art Festival at the discotheque Killer Joe’s, Tokyo, in 1969, Gulliver presented ​Cinematic Illumination​ (1968–69), a work involving eighteen slide projectors that illuminated the unique 360-degree environment. The outdoor performance ​Flying Focus ​(1969) involved a tubular balloon into which Gulliver projected coloured patterns using an overhead projector. Since, he has continued to remain active as an artist working in the fields of sculpture, performance and new media with an interest in the body, scale, and humour. He is represented by Tajana Pieters (Ghent) and Aoyama Meguro (Tokyo) and has performed or exhibited his work recently at Tate Modern and Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.