Takayama Akira

Takayama Akira Happy Island – The Messianic Banquet of the Righteous on the Last Day 2015

BIOGRAPHY

Takayama Akira　高山明
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Born 1969 in Saitama, lives and works in Saitama, Japan

1991-93	Studied philosophy at Waseda University, Japan
1993-98	Practiced theater in Germany
1998-2002	Directed and produced work at theaters in Tokyo
2002	Founded Port B (Theater and Performance Unit)

– Selected Exhibitions, Theater Projects and Performances –

2020	THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER, JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
	Tokyo Trunk Room, ARCHI=DEPOT MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan
2019	Where We Now Stand – In Order to Map the Future, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
	A sequel to Marbashi Liturgia Horarum – Akatsuki no mura Walk, The Ecology of Expression: Remaking Our Relations with the world, Arts Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
	Heterotopia Riga, Riga, Latvia
	Public Speech Project, J Art Call Center, Aichi Triennale 2019: Taming Y/Our Passion, Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, Aichi, Japan
	McDonald’s Radio University, McDonald’s Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan
	New Tokyo School Excursion Project: Fukushima Version, Tokyo, Japan
	Heterotopia Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2018	McDonald’s Radio University, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
	New Tokyo School Excursion Project: Japanese Orphans in China Version, Tokyo, Japan
	New Tokyo School Excursion Project: Kurd Version, Tokyo, Japan
	McDonald’s Radio University River Tour, Berlin, Germany
	21st Biennale of Sydney―SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equilibrium and Engagement, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art Venue, Sydney, Australia
2017	Tokyo School Excursion Project: China Version, Tokyo, Japan
	Tokyo School Excursion Project: Thailand Version, Tokyo, Japan
	Wagner Project- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, KAAT Kanagawa Arts Center, Yokohama, Japan
	Sharjah Biennial 13 Act II, Beirut, Lebanon
	Some Lessons to Feel：Something Far is Near, Something Near is Far, Koganecho Bazaar 2017, Yokohama Hinode Pier, Yokohama, Japan
	Piraeus / Heterotopia, Athens,Greece
	McDonald’s Radio University, Frankfurt, German
	Tokyo School Excursion Project: Taiwan Version, Tokyo, Japan
	Beitou/Tokyo Heterotopia, Taiwan Cultural Center, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office, Tokyo, Japan
2016	Roppongi Crossing, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
	Beitou Heterotopia, Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
	Forest of Expression, Arts Maebashi, Gumma, Japan
2015	Happy Island, SpielArt Festival, Munich, Germany
	Demarcation: Akira Takayama & Meiro Koizumi, Ginza Maison Hermès Le Forum, Tokyo, Japan
	Oita Media Collegio, Oita Toilennale, Oita, Japan
	X Apartments Athens, Fast Forward Festival, ONASSIS Culture Centre, Athens, Greece
2014	The Place of Crossed Destinies Akita, Akita Arts Project, Akita, Japan
	The Complete Manual of Evacuation Frankfurt, Kuenstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt; Mainz State Theater; Darmstadt State Theater; Rhine-Main Region, Germany
	Yokohama Commune (installation), Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
	Yokohama Commune (performance), Yokohama Triennale, nitehi works, Yokohama, Japan
	Referendum Project, Tour of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
	Referendum Project (installation), Berlin Hebbel am Ufer Theater, Berlin, Germany
2013	Tokyo Heterotopia, Festival/Tokyo 2013, Tokyo, Japan
	Referendum Project (installation), Festival de Keuze, Rotterdam, Netherlands
	Referendum Project (Installation), Academy of Arts Vienna, Austria
	Fukushima Epilog? (performance), Secession, Vienna, Austria
	Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant Tour (performance), Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant, Austria
2012	Kein Licht II (based on “Fukushima Epilog” by Elfriede Jelinek), Festival/Tokyo 2012, Shinbashi area, Tokyo, Japan
	Referendum Project (installation), Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
	Referendum Project, Tohoku tour, Miyagi, Iwate, Japan
2011	Referendum Project, Festival/Tokyo 2011, Tokyo and Fukushima, Japan
	Compartment City Vienna, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria
2010	The Complete Manual of Evacuation Tokyo, Festival/Tokyo 2010, Tokyo, Japan