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Tadasu TAKAMINE

Contemporary Artist / Theater Director

Born in Kagoshima in 1968 and lives in Akita. Graduated from the lacquer work department of Kyoto City University of Arts and Music, and the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Science (IAMAS) in Gifu. Much of Takamine’s work awakens a feeling of non-verbal compassion and sympathy in the viewer through installations, media art techniques, and performances that emphasize the bi-directional relationship between a work and its audience. His practice also deals with issues related to American imperialism, the sexuality of handicapped persons, and issues facing foreign residents in Japan, highlighting the complex relationships between authority and subject, those implicated within a particular situation, and those who are not, often prompting the viewer towards a process of self-questioning. His works have been highly acclaimed both in Japan and abroad. Takamine participated in the Venice Biennale in 2003, and his solo show “Too Far to See” toured three Japanese museums between 2011 and 2012. He is also the author of “A Lover from Korea” (Kawade Shobo Shinsha,2008), a novel that examines issues related to identity and nationalism through his own personal relationship with an ethnic Korean woman resident in Japan, and an incident that took place at a manganese mine in Kyoto, where Takamine wrote the work."

Related Events

  • Opening Talk Session #3

    July 22, 2018

  • Exhibition curated by exonemo + YCAM

    Reincarnation of Media Art

    July 21 — October 28, 2018

  • How not to think?

    June 23 — July 1, 2012

  • Japan Syndrome in Yamaguchi

    June 23 — July 1, 2012

  • Artist Talk

    August 24, 2008

  • OTOMO Yoshihide / ENSEMBLES

    July 5 — October 13, 2008

  • Yoshihideo Otomo + Tadasu Takamine: Talk Show

    June 1, 2008

  • 'IMAGINARY CHUYA' Related events

    Symposium

    November 3, 2006

  • IMAGINARY CHUYA

    November 3, 2006 — January 8, 2007

  • Noism04

    black ice

    November 13, 2004

Released Works

  • How not to think?

    2012 Performing Arts

    Tadasu TAKAMINE

    Under construction

  • Japan Syndrome in Yamaguchi

    2012 Videos

    Tadasu TAKAMINE

    Under construction

  • orchestras

    2008 Installation

    Tadasu TAKAMINE+OTOMO Yoshihide

    Under construction

  • Beach on a moonlight

    2006 Videos

    Tadasu TAKAMINE

    Under construction

  • Others

    Tadasu TAKAMINE

    Under construction

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