As a statement on cross-pollination of Oriental and Occidental cultures, performance artists Alan Pulner and Rika Ohara danced, sketched, lectured and acted through their hourlong collaboration "Astroboy Meets Godzilla" on Thursday at Oranges and Sardines--a small gallery near Little Tokyo. An appreciative audience of about 20 attended this Fringe Festival event.
A playfully pedantic lecture on the history of Japanese cartoons begins "Astroboy Meets Godzilla," which quickly moves through various episodes of many moods, all leading up to a final horror of dropping a nuclear bomb. Meanwhile, the America-versus-Japan theme underscores a more significant revelation, a younger generation immersed in an imaginary world of mass-media cartoons.
